Levi Waldron wrote:
I had some unused space at the beginning of my hard drive, with my
partition table looking something like:
Ok, what is possible is that the geometry written to the beginning
of the new partitions is not correct, and so the start of /home
is now being miscomputed somehow. I don't see how there was
any need to write to any of the active locations (except possibly
you messed up something with the GRUB update, but that shouldn't
clobber the FS, only the first sector of the partition). I don't
know enough about ext2/ext3 to know how to find the superblock
and verify that it's ok. But my guess is that if you delete the
two new partitions, then you might just be ok. My guess is that
you've not lost any actual data, but it might be difficult
to reconstruct the superblock for the ext2/3 partition you have
/home on. I know that I can't do it for you.
I recommend you wait for a better expert. I've given it my
best shot here, and I can't explain why you can't do that
mount, nothing should have happened to that partition at all.
(Except possibly you messed up fstab, though that's a weak
guess.)
If you just feel the need to do *something*, then you should try
deleting the two new partitions, attempting to revert the
PT to its original state, cross your fingers, and reboot
KNOPPIX. You might luck out and find that /home will just
mount, or if the label causes a problem, at least it will
pass fsck. If so, then you could try to recover bootable
state by backing out the changes to fstab.
It depends on how lucky you feel. I dunno where you are,
but where I am it's 01:30 and I'd guess you might need
to get some sleep and be able to work tomorrow.
Er, unless you need your machine to do your work.
Step 0 before messing with partitions: don't do it
on the road.
:-(
Sorry about your situation. I wish I could help you more.
I just can't see anything that would clobber that. (I made
the two guesses above, but they're pretty weak and not very
likely guesses.)
I'm going to be up for a while yet. If something occurs to
me, I'll send another message just in case you are hanging
on still, or if you just want to send some more info or
need a shoulder to cry on. If you make progress or do something
let me know how it came out.
Good luck. I'm still pullin' for you.
I really wish I could figure out what's wrong. :-(
Mike
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