Hello On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 08:41 -0500, boricua wrote: > > > > you have to get spare reliable partition of not smaller size and copy > > hda4 to it. > > > > Please make sure that you have to use dd_rescue to copy data. > > (dd requires additional options to properly copy data off when source > > file has unreadable blocks). > > then run reiserfsck on new partition. > > > > > whats the syntax for dd_rescue i.e my bb is 33554432 > so how would i write to that bad blocks. > I do not think you should write to bad block. Just get good device and copy hda4 to it. dd_rescue is to copy hda4 to another device. It will take care of unreadable blocks properly.
dd_rescue /dev/hda4 /dev/spare-partition > if not then i'll try your suggestion of copying the partition not sure if i > can get same size since its my root partition > but i would like to do it for learning reasons > bigger size is also fine.
