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.