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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >