On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 7:00 PM Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> ddrescue by default reads the whole file (via the mounted file system, > not pointing it to raw sectors), but with truncated bad 4KiB blocks. > The bad blocks are simply missing, there is no gap filled with zeros > or some other pattern unless you ask ddrescue for that. I think truncated is the wrong word here. That means to shorten, as in the end is snipped off. When I use cat, it is truncated right at the bad block, nothing else is read. Whereas ddrescue omits the bad 4KiB blocks, but continues to read the rest. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
