How to Install and Uninstall gddrescue Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: April 24,2024

1. Install "gddrescue" package

This tutorial shows how to install gddrescue on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                gddrescue
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "gddrescue" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall gddrescue on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                gddrescue
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the gddrescue package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: gddrescue
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.23-2build1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Michael Prokop
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 400
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Suggests: ddrescueview
Filename: pool/universe/g/gddrescue/gddrescue_1.23-2build1_amd64.deb
Size: 117648
MD5sum: 479a3c4ae6b36c42fea9f5321b2a2daf
SHA1: c8c1ea585572db981955f5b0484c55b9c3f07a6e
SHA256: 2e80bca2d8a60fa141384be1b23c011133caf35f8c021bdf61c03b25e58c3b3f
SHA512: dd69ed1116800b4e7b726aad93d44cad76ce7323b95f2c87fa9d391e6546e15a6662291c082d48b0abc39f68b81b3e6f590cb3a50956482e49586e54beef4dbb
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
Description-en: GNU data recovery tool
The gddrescue tool copies data from one file or block device
(hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data
in case of read errors.
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gddrescue does not truncate the output file if not asked to.
So, every time you run it on the same output file, it tries to
fill in the gaps.
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The basic operation of gddrescue is fully automatic. That is,
you don't have to wait for an error, stop the program, read the
log, run it in reverse mode, etc. If you use the logfile
feature of gddrescue, the data is rescued very efficiently (only
the needed blocks are read). Also you can interrupt the rescue
at any time and resume it later at the same point.
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Automatic merging of backups: If you have two or more damaged
copies of a file, cdrom, etc, and run gddrescue on all of them,
one at a time, with the same output file, you will probably
obtain a complete and error-free file. This is so because the
probability of having damaged areas at the same places on
different input files is very low. Using the logfile, only the
needed blocks are read from the second and successive copies.
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The logfile is periodically saved to disc. So in case of a crash
you can resume the rescue with little recopying. Also, the same
logfile can be used for multiple commands that copy different
areas of the file, and for multiple recovery attempts over
different subsets.
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gddrescue aligns its I/O buffer to the sector size so that it
can be used to read from raw devices. For efficiency reasons,
also aligns it to the memory page size if page size is a
multiple of sector size.
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Please note that this is the GNU ddrescue version providing the
ddrescue executable. The package is named gddrescue because the
ddrescue version of Kurt Garloff used to have the ddrescue
package name already.
Description-md5: 95448f9ab04e163adf1889e7beca3fda