On Fri, 08 May 2015 19:52:04 -0400
The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
Not quite. /dev/sda2/ is not a directory; it's a device node. Since
/dev/sda2 is mounted to / (the root filesystem), the correct
equivalent to this command would be: ddrescue /dev/sdd /dev/sdc
/ddrescue.log and although I wouldn't advise storing a log file in
the root directory, the command should work. The log file itself can
be placed in any writable location which has enough space.
Thank you I started ddrescue and it is going somewhere. Probably will
take 10 hours or more to complete. I'll let you know how it's all went.
Thank you once more. It refused to work as we wanted and asked for
--force option ( -f)