Re: Question

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Shahrukh Merchant wrote:
> Perhaps related to Robert's comment, but the ddrescue man page says:
>
> The format for running ddrescue is:
> ddrescue [options] infile outfile [mapfile]
>
> so your specifying --force at the end rather than at the beginning as
> indicated (quite aside from the redundancy) may be throwing off the
> command line parser's interpretation of what is supposed to be infile,
> outfile and mapfile.

This can't be the cause of the error because all of my programs (including 
ddrescue) use Arg_parser, which "makes it appear as if all the option 
arguments were specified before all the non-option arguments for the 
purposes of parsing, even if the user of your program intermixed option and 
non-option arguments[1]".

[1] 
http://www.nongnu.org/arg-parser/manual/arg_parser_manual.html#Argument-syntax

If the drive sizes reported by apsiggy are correct, then most probably 
Robert is right and the device where the mapfile 'logfile' is being written 
is out of space.

> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 9:53 AM a p <apsiggy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > IF so my output from running ddrescue to clone a HDD
> > > (ddrescue -f /dev/sda /dev/sdb logfile --force) errors out and says"no
> > > space of device"..

It would help to know the version of ddrescue and the exact error message. 
For example ddrescue 1.25 would print the following:

  ddrescue: Error writing mapfile 'logfile': No space left on device


Regards,
Antonio.