Can't rebuild journal of EXT-3 partition

[Marc M]

Hook it up to a removable drive or some other type of temporary
mounted media.   Then dd individual directories systematically until
you have everything.  That is probably the most scientific way since
it will do a bit copy although it will take a while for sure.

Marc


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:40:35 -0600, Robert Citek
<rwcitek at alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, Mar 31, 2005, at 03:37 US/Central, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Longming Lee wrote:
> >> There are 200GB in this partition. It's a hard work to move out. Can
> >> find
> >> alternative solution?
> >
> > I don't know of a safe way to do this given that you can't get fsck or
> > tune2fs to work.
> 
> My guess would be that you have a drive that is going bad.  Check your
> logs (/var/log/messages) for disk error messages.  If you find them,
> then you probably would want to test the partitions and recover the
> data with something like testsdisk:
> 
>    http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.html
> 
> Good luck, and let us know how things go.
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert
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