Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Maybe a typo in the ddrescue online manual

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello.

address@hidden wrote:
> Following I found in the ddrescue Manual 
> (https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html#Invoking-Ddrescue):
> `-R'`--reverse'Reverse direction of all copy operations. This means the copy of 
> the
> non-tried blocks, splitting and retrying are run backwards, while
> trimming is run forwards.
>
>      This looks like a leftover from a dd_rescue manual, maybe.My ddrescue 
> tells me:
> `--retrim'
> `-R'

This is because you are using a version of ddrescue older than 1.14. In 
version 1.14 the option "-R, --reverse" was added and "--retrim" was 
assigned the short option "-M".

It can't be a leftover from a dd_rescue manual because ddrescue and 
dd_rescue are not related at all.


Regards,
Antonio.