Re: [Dump-users] Can't read next inode ...

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

Hi Perry,

Le dimanche 10 août 2008 à 15:09 -0700, Perry Hutchison a écrit :
> I am attempting to dump a filesystem which has developed a bad
> block, and the bad block happens to contain some of the inodes.
> Even though I specified a large -I number, dump is terminating
> upon reaching the unreadable inode block.
> 
> How do I get it to just skip over unreadable blocks, including
> unreadable inode blocks, and dump whatever can be read?

I'm afraid you can't.

At this point you should make a low level copy of the filesystem (using
dd for example), and try to repair the filesystem using e2fsck. Once the
filesystem is clean, you should be able to use dump again...

Stelian.
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