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But also, at about this time, I would question wheter you want to
*solve* this problem, or rather work around it. How important it is to
fix *this* filesystem?

Since you had the free disk space to make dd copies, then you could also
have made fresh ext3 fs's that Fedora could use, mounted them (or at
least tried to) in the RH box, and just bulk copied the contents of the
problem fs's to the new ones.

This would be one of several possible work around. There are other
considerations, such as the age and expected usage patterns of the
drives to consider.

Good Luck
Raymond McLaughlin