From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Subject: Re: problem with reiser3
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:35:58 -0500
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To: Marcos Dione <mdione@grulic.org.ar>
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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.