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Margarita Lovvorn
GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or blockdevice (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying to rescue the good partsfirst in case of read errors.The ddrescue package also includes ddrescuelog, an auxiliary tool thatmanipulates ddrescue mapfiles, shows mapfile contents, converts mapfilesto/from other formats, compares mapfiles, tests rescue status, and can deletea mapfile if the rescue is done. Ddrescuelog operations can be restricted toone or several parts of the mapfile if the domain setting options are used.The basic operation of ddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you don't haveto wait for an error, stop the program, restart it from a new position, etc.If you use the mapfile feature of ddrescue, the data are rescued veryefficiently, (only the blocks needed are read). Also you may interrupt therescue at any time and resume it later at the same point. The mapfile is anessential part of ddrescue's effectiveness. Use it unless you know what youare doing.Ddrescue does not write zeros to the output when it finds bad sectors in theinput, and does not truncate the output file if not asked to. So, every timeyou run it on the same output file, it tries to fill in the gaps withoutwiping out the data already rescued.Automatic merging of backups: If you have two or more damaged copies of afile, cdrom, etc, and run ddrescue on all of them, one at a time, with thesame output file, you will probably obtain a complete and error-free file.This is so because the probability of having the same area damaged in allcopies is low (if the errors are randomly located). Using the mapfile, onlythe blocks needed are read from the second and successive copies.Ddrescue recommends lzipfor compression of backups because the lzip formatis designed for long-term archiving and provides data recovery capabilitieswhich nicely complement those of ddrescue. (Ddrescue fills unreadablesectors with data from other copies, while lziprecover corrects corruptsectors with data from other copies). If the cause of file corruption is adamaged medium, the combinationddrescue + lziprecoveris the best option for recovering data from multiple damaged copies.Recordable CD and DVD media keep their data only for a finite time(typically for some years). After that time, data loss develops slowly withread errors growing from the outer region towards the inside. It is a goodidea to make two (or more) copies of every important CD-ROM/DVD you burn sothat you can later recover them with ddrescue.The mapfile is periodically saved to disc. So in case of a crash you canresume the rescue with little recopying.The same mapfile can be used for multiple commands that copy different areasof the input file, and for multiple recovery attempts over different subsets.Ddrescue also features a 'fill mode' able to selectively overwrite parts ofthe output file, which has a number of interesting uses like wiping data,marking bad areas, or even, in some cases, "repair" damaged sectors.One of the strengths of ddrescue is that it is interface-agnostic, and socan be used for any kind of device supported by your kernel (ATA, SATA,SCSI, old MFM drives, floppy discs, or even flash media cards like SD).
The manual is available in the info system of the GNUOperating System. Use info to access the top level info page.Use info ddrescue to access the ddrescue section directly.An online manual for ddrescue can be found atmanual/ddrescue_manual.html.
The latest released version of GNU ddrescue can be found at in the subdirectory /gnu/ddrescue/ on your favoriteGNU mirror.For other ways to obtain ddrescue, please readHowto get GNU Software. The latest released version will be the mostrecent version available at decompress ddrescue tarballs you may need lzip from use "tar -xf ddrescue[version].tar.lz" or"lzip -cd ddrescue[version].tar.lz tar -xf -"to extract the files.Old versions and testing versions can be found at
For general discussion of errors (bugs) in ddrescue, the mailing listbug-...@gnu.orgis the most appropriate forum. Please send messages as plain text.Please do not send messages encoded as HTML nor encoded as base64 norincluded as multiple formats. Please include a descriptive subject line withthe word "ddrescue" in it.An archive of the bug report mailing list is available at -ddrescue.
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I rejected the Microsoft Surface due to poor GNU/Linux support, and have chosen the X1 Carbon over the Dell XPS13 and Lenovo X1 Nano 1st generation as the X1 carbon has more external interfaces (ie more USB and Thunderbird). I considered going for 8th generation Lenovo X1 Carbon, but I want to give the 11th generation CPU in the X1 9th generation a try. I note the core-i5-113G7 CPU in the 9th generation Carbon X1 is quite possibly slightly faster than the old core-i7 4770 CPU on my desktop PC.
Why Lenovo? Also - and this is very important for me from a philosophy view point - I note recently (starting last year ? ) Lenovo has made a deliberate effort to support GNU/Linux more, and so I also like the idea of buying from them as a result.
I think Lenovo package a number of their newer Lenovo products with Red Hat and Ubuntu GNU/Linux, although I will likely purchase a Windows-10 version, shrink Windows-10 to the smallest possible partition, and then install openSUSE version TBD (either LEAP-15.2, or 15.3 (unlikely due to audio limitations) or Tumbleweed).
I use Leap 15.3 and have VirtualBox run 15.3, Tumbleweed, and Windows 10 and 11 on an 8th gen Dell laptop with 32gb ram and 1tb of nvme. I do all my work in the 15.3 virtual machine - makes backups easy by just copying the vdi for the virtual machine.
My 2 cents. I retired from HP but prefer Dell laptops. (Almost all laptops motherboards are made by Selectron or Foxcomm for Dell, HP, Apple, and Lenovo - The machine that inserts the CPU costs millions of dollars and needs replaced every new CPU generation - It would add almost $750 to a Dell or HP laptop if they assembled them themselves so everyone uses the same board maker to be price competitive.)
Good luck in your search - me - I buy used last gen business computers on Ebay - you can get a $2500 computer for $500 that they just stop making this or last year. A new battery, a new nvme and 32gb of ram and you can have a like new laptop for $700. Most have no battery and no SSD or nvme as businesses do not return storage for fear of data being seen on the drives.
[INDENT=2]*The Intel Media Driver for VAAPI is a new VA-API (Video Acceleration API) user mode driver supporting hardware accelerated decoding, encoding, and video post processing for GEN based graphics hardware.
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I suspect prior to installing openSUSE, immediately after initially powering the ultrabook (in Windows-10) I will create a Windows-10 recovery USB, and file that away somewhere. When looking for my USBs (in preparation for this) I actually stumbled across a VERY OLD Windows-8 recovery USB that I created back in April-2013 that I created for my ancient Toshiba Z930 ultrabook (which is my current ultrabook that I intend to replace with this Lenovo X1 Carbon 9th gen).
I do NOT expect this will affect me, as I am NOT a power user, and the Lenovo X1 Carbon 9th generation that I ordered (Core-i7-1165G7) is massively more powerful than my very OLD year 2013 Toshiba Z930 (Core-i7-3667U) that I currently use. I speculate this newer Lenovo is at least 3x more powerful and possibly much more than my old Toshiba.
Of course openSUSE LEAP-15.3 has an older 5.3.18 kernel, although I note the current Tumbleweed has a 5.14.6 kernel. I also note that openSUSE LEAP-15.3 also has an old v1.6 of thermald app, although one can obtain the newer 2.4.6 (where I read the newer version may be needed) from experimental and community repositories for LEAP-15.3. Without the 5.13 kernel thou, its possible one can not fully take advantage of the features of the newer thermald-2.4.6 < unsure > .
Getting audio to work may need some effort, as I think it will require sof-firmware, which is packaged for openSUSE-LEAP-15.2 and Tumbleweed, but not for openSUSE-LEAP-15.3 (from what I can determine).
Researching this further, I learned sof-firmware is packaged for openSUSE LEAP-15.3 as sof-firmware-1.6.1-2.9. However in the experimental and community respositories, one can download sof-firmware-1.8.
One can download intel-media-driver-21.3.3 from an openSUSE-LEAP-15.3 experimental repository. I recall that in the openSUSE-LEAP-15.2 official repository one can find intel-media-driver-19.2.1. So obviously I was curious as to the differences between versions 19.2.1 and 21.3.3. Looking at Releases intel/media-driver GitHub there are MANY updates, and it looks to me that if one does a fair amount of encoding, like I tend to do, it makes sense to install the intel-media-driver-21.3.3 that is packaged in the experimental repository.
The official release for openSUSE LEAP-15.3 of fprintd is fprintd-0.8.0. In openSUSE-15.3 experimental and community is fprintd-1.90.9. I was curious about the differences so I took a look at -fprintd/releases
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