Toni Müller wrote: > the file system is still available, but I need to check with the user if > I can ship his data offsite, and it would be a large file (~115GB). Note that "e2image -r" only writes metadata (using holes in place of actual data), so "e2image -r <device> - | bzip2 > corrupted.e2i.bz2" may not be too large if the metadata is not too complex. If you want to avoid revealing filenames, the "-s" option to e2image can help.