Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:10:21 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: MANTANI Nobutaka <nobutaka@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils Makefile ports/sysutils/dd_rescue Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/sysutils/dd_rescue/files patch-Makefile patch-dd_rescue.c Message-ID: <20050315151021.GA35927@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <8664ztneiv.wl%nobutaka@nobutaka.org> References: <200503141709.j2EH9ntl078062@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050314224141.GB30916@FreeBSD.org> <8664ztneiv.wl%nobutaka@nobutaka.org>
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:56:56PM +0900, MANTANI Nobutaka wrote: > At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:41:41 +0000, > Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:09:49PM +0000, MANTANI Nobutaka wrote: > > > nobutaka 2005-03-14 17:09:49 UTC > > > > > > FreeBSD ports repository > > > > > > Modified files: > > > sysutils Makefile > > > Added files: > > > sysutils/dd_rescue Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist > > > sysutils/dd_rescue/files patch-Makefile patch-dd_rescue.c > > > Log: > > > Add dd_rescue, a dd tool suitable for rescuing data from a medium with errors. > > > > What does it do what "dd -conv=noerror,sync" and phk's bad media recover tool > > cannot? > > It has several features they don't have. > > - It can read a file backwards from the end of the file. > - Don't abort on error until a error number reaches a maximum error > number specified by a user (or don't abort at all). > - You can specify two block sizes, a small one used in the case of errors > and a large one used in the normal case (It is similar to phk's recoverdisk). Thanks for explanation. You should've probably said so in commit message in the first place though. ;-) ./danfe
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