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-------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message, including its attachments, is confidential. For more information please read NNG's email policy here: http://www.nng.com/emailpolicy/ By responding to this email you accept the email policy. -----Original Message----- > From: Bug-ddrescue [mailto:bug-ddrescue- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Antonio Diaz Diaz > Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 8:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.23-pre1 released > > GNU ddrescue 1.23-pre1 is ready for testing here > http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.23- > pre1.tar.lz > > The sha1sum is: > ca57a155350712ba22792cb80d77ebdcb924d7d5 ddrescue-1.23-pre1.tar.lz > > Please, test it and report any bugs you find. > > GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block > device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying to rescue the good parts > first > in case of read errors. > > Ddrescuelog is a tool that manipulates ddrescue mapfiles, shows mapfile > contents, converts mapfiles to/from other formats, compares mapfiles, tests > rescue status, and can delete a mapfile if the rescue is done. > > The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html > > > Changes in this version: > > * The new option '--same-file' has been added. It allows infile and > outfile to > be the same file or device. This can be used to test the writing ability of a > drive. It can also be used to copy part of a file to another location inside > or > beyond the end of the same file if '--input-position' and '--output-position' > are different. Are overlaps handled correctly (like bitblt)? That is, can I safely use this feature to e.g. shift a 20GB partition backwards on a disk by 2GB? > > > Regards, > Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer. > > -- > If you are distributing software compressed with xz, please consider using > lzip instead. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html > and http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#busybox > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-ddrescue mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
