Hi Jeffrey, could you please provide the command you invoked ddresuce, e.g.
ddrescue -d -r3 /harddrive baby3.img baby3.logfile ? Also: From which directory are you starting the process. I guess it's your home directory, but you maybe did try to invoke ddrescue from either the drive you want to write to or anywhere else? I believe you tried to write not an image file, but directly to the external disk? It is not clear from your description. This might help in further assessing your problem. Just to give you an insufficient answer. You might write the logfile anywhere you want, e.g. your Ubuntu Desktop (/home/yourusername/Desktop) and continue later. Just in case you want to make sure that you are really allowed to write to the disk. On 22.04.2016 20:34, Jeffrey Carlson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is a bug, but no one I normally ask these questions > seems to know what's going on with an error message I'm getting that I > can't write a logfile. I hope this isn't an inappropriate forum and > apologize if it is, but I would really like to not lose this backup. (I > already had to abandon an earlier ddrescue attempt that had made almost 130 > MB more progress than this one has, so I know the drive is failing more as > I try to recover data.) > > I'm in the midst of trying to use ddrescue 1.17 to copy a HFS+ partition > from a failing hard drive in an enclosure, and attached to a Ubuntu laptop > as an external hard drive, to a ext4 partition on a different external hard > drive. The cords must have gotten bumped: I was told there was an > input/output error, and I don't seem to be able to write the new version to > the logfile. I have two questions, one about whether I should be worried > about this at all and the second about the error message I can't understand. > > Question 1: in Section 7 of the manual, it says my logfile will be lost if > I hit Q+ENTER to quit. Will this make me unable to resume the backup in the > future? I have saved copies of the logfile up to this point in other > locations in case it will let me resume. > > In case I really shouldn't do Q+enter, I'll describe the error(s). I > initially had this: > > ddrescue: Error opening logfile 'baby3.logfile' for writing.: Input/output > error > > So I made sure the drive was plugged in and mounted, and got a new error: > > ddrescue: Error opening logfile 'baby3.logfile' for writing.: Read-only > file system > Fix the problem and press ENTER to retry, or Q+ENTER to abort. > > I've done various things to try and fix this. The drive I was writing to > was indeed mounted as read-only, so I unmounted it and remounted it as > rewriteable. That didn't work, so physically ejected it and plugged it back > in, and it told me it was now rewriteable. I tested that I could create and > delete files on it, so I believe this is correct. I changed myself to owner > on all files on the partition and changed all permissions to 777. It also > seemed I was running up against a space issue, in that there wasn't enough > space to write the logfile, but I used tune2fs to shrink the root-reserved > portion and checked there was then enough space to copy the logfile several > times (properties reports it has 2.4GB free), so it no longer seems like > that could be the issue either. No matter what I try, though, I get the > "read-only file system" error message. > > Question 2: what can I do to make ddrescue want to write the logfile to > this drive? > > > Thank for reading this, > Jeff > > P.S.: In case it's of interest, here's what my progress looked like before > the problem: > > GNU ddrescue 1.17 > Press Ctrl-C to interrupt > Initial status (read from logfile) > rescued: 497982 MB, errsize: 1131 MB, errors: 3727 > Current status > rescued: 497984 MB, errsize: 1129 MB, current rate: 0 B/s > ipos: 15227 MB, errors: 3917, average rate: 136 B/s > opos: 15227 MB, time since last successful read: 1.2 m > Splitting failed blocks... > _______________________________________________ > Bug-ddrescue mailing list > Bug-ddrescue@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue > _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list Bug-ddrescue@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
