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From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
To: Marcos Dione <mdione@grulic.org.ar>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: problem with reiser3
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:35:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EB245E.50706@slaphack.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060822050656.GG14067@grulic.org.ar>

Marcos Dione wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:23:30PM -0500, David Masover wrote:
>>>> it would be better to create a backup on a spare bigger partition
>>>> using dd_rescue (pad not recoverable zones with zeroes), then run
>>>> fsck on the created image.
>>>    unluckly I can't. it's a 160 GiB partition and I don't have spare
>>> space.
>> How much spare space do you have?  You may be able to do some tricks 
>> with dm_snapshot...
> 
>     right now, I have 45 MiB of space in my spare disk. I *could*
> (should?) make more space, but can't guarrantee anythung.

That won't be enough.  Worst case, decide whether the data on that 160 
gig partition is worth buying a cheap 200 or 300 gig drive for this backup.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-22 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-21 22:24 problem with reiser3 Marcos Dione
2006-08-21 23:29 ` Marcos Dione
2006-08-21 23:38 ` Edward Shishkin
2006-08-21 23:53   ` Marcos Dione
2006-08-22  1:23     ` David Masover
2006-08-22  5:06       ` Marcos Dione
2006-08-22 15:35         ` David Masover [this message]
2006-08-22  9:42     ` Edward Shishkin

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