Hi Arno, * Arno Lehmann <a...@its-lehmann.de> [2024-12-11; 12:59 +01]: > Am 11.12.2024 um 12:01 schrieb Gregor Zattler: >>> Or where to ask? The ext3-users >>> mailing list does not exist any more? > > Linux kernel mailing lists might help, at least to ask where to find the > ext family developers.
thanks, will do. [...] > What I would do is the following. > > 1. Find storage to store a full dump of the file system (or, actually, > its underlying block storage). Create such a dump, because it's quite > likely that further problems arise. Dump in this context means dd, not > the file system dump tool. Too expensive... > 2. Familiarize yourself with ext file system options and debugfs tool. > Eventually, see if you can access the file system without any features > that would add extra storage capacity or inode needs. Like without > journal, without checksumming, without any redundancy and in particular > read only. The man page ext4 (5) does not show any way to mount without checksumming (if enabled as a feature). I probably will throw away the backup. Thanks for your thoughts. Ciao; Gregor -- -... --- .-. . -.. ..--.. ...-.-
