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

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

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