On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:12:19AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Sorry for reposting but my home system is effectively unusable. > > Late on Dec. 25 I rebooted my sid system and my home directory is no > longer visible to my system even to Grub. It contains my home > directory. An Ubuntu 8.10 live CD sees it just fine. I normally keep > everything updated unless apt-listbugs shows. > > FWIW it's /dev/hda10 on a 40GB drive. The / directory which is > /dev/hda9 is completely visible and boots just fine. > > Is anyone aware of any changes at that time that would cause this? > > Any diagnostic ideas?
I had a similar problem not too long ago and used cfdisk to rebuild the partition table; somehow it got messed up and cfdisk fixed it, via using an Ubuntu 9.10 Live CD. Might be worth looking into for you. I think it worked because Ubuntu recognized the partitions, so it was able to rebuild the partition table based on sector locations of partitions it recognized. Just a guess though, that's getting beyond my realm of knowledge. Mark
