Re: [Bug-ddrescue] place to get more help?

[Matthew Ruffalo]

Hello Brian-

This probably wouldn't be in a ddrescue FAQ anyway; it isn't a ddrescue 
error. ddrescue is correctly telling you that /dev/sdc1 is not a 
directory -- it's a partition on the disk /dev/sdc.

You need to mount the filesystem in this partition somewhere in order to 
write a new file to it. For example,

mkdir /mnt/disk
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/disk
ddrescue --force -r 3 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/disk/log.txt

If /dev/sdc1 is NTFS, you will most likely need to run 'ntfs-3g 
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/disk' instead of running 'mount'. You will of course want 
to 'umount /mnt/disk' after you're done.

Are you running ddrescue from a live CD of some sort? This may affect 
whether ntfs-3g is available (assuming that you need it, of course).

MMR...

On 05/01/2012 12:34 AM, Brian Robinson wrote:
> I need a place where I can pay/ask someone that can help me get ddrescue 
> working.
>
> Good Evening
>
> wondered if you had a recommend place that I could learn more about DDrescue, 
> it is not very well documented(sample commands don't work and there is no FAQ 
> to help people when they get errors like I have below) , I have tried to save 
> the logfile several times and I am banging my head against the wall.
>
> I am trying the command ddrescue --force -r 3 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb1 
> /dev/sdc1/log.txt
>
> I get the errors
>
> Error opening logfile /dev/sdc1/log.txt for writing.: Not a directory
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Brian
>
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