Bug 658826 – sys-fs/ddrutility (new package)

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Anna Tikhomirova 2018-06-23 13:58:59 UTC]

Created attachment 536962 [details]
ddrutility-2.8.ebuild

Hello.

Here is the ebuild for ddrutility - LINUX based utility for use with gnuddrescue to aid with data recovery.

[Comment 1 Anna Tikhomirova 2018-06-23 13:59:40 UTC]

Created attachment 536964 [details]
metadata.xml

[Comment 2 Anna Tikhomirova 2018-06-23 14:00:01 UTC]

Created attachment 536966 [details, diff]
ddrutility-2.8-makefile.patch

[Comment 3 Jonas Stein 2018-06-24 21:33:28 UTC]

Sounds interesting. It seems to provide some NTFS tools, but I could not find out from its docs what it really does. Can you provide more information, what it really does?

[Comment 4 Anna Tikhomirova 2018-06-25 03:16:43 UTC]

GNU ddrescue generates a log file which contains the list of unreadable sectors of the source disk.

ddru_(ntfs)findbad is used to find which files are damaged. ddru_findbad is the slow but universal shell script for NTFS/EXT/FAT/HFS. ddru_ntfsfindbad is the advanced NTFS-only version written in C.

ddru_ntfsbitmap can be used to pregenerate a log file for ddrescue so it doesn't try to recover unused areas of the partition.

[Comment 5 Anna Tikhomirova 2018-06-25 03:18:05 UTC]

Created attachment 537144 [details]
ddrutility-2.8.ebuild

add missing dependency for ddru_findbad, correct license