• GNU ddrescue 1.30 released

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Tue Jan 6 06:40:08 2026

    Version 1.30 of the GNU
    ddrescue data recovery tool has been released. Notable changes in
    this release include improvements to automatic recovery of a drive
    with a dead head, addition of a --no-sweep option to disable
    reading of skipped areas, and more.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1052796/
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