I'm afraid I've got something extremely stupid to confess. I was monkeying
around this evening resizing some partitions. I made the Windows partition
smaller, which freed up about 3.5GB, which I turned around and turned into a
part of Linux's file system as /home. Well, it's a little late in the day
and it slips my mind to that if I don't format the partition it won't work,
and if I do then...well...I'm not sure what I was thinking. At any rate, now
when I attempt to boot my Linux system I get kernel panic. The message I get
is that it can't mount (root) fs.
Am I correct in assuming that I've toasted my file system, or is there
something I can do to correct this HUMUNGOUSly STUPID error in judgement.
This ranks right up there with one of the DUMBEST things I've EVER done. I
didn't have any "can't do without" data there yet, but everyone's mail and
stuff is there. O, just for the record this is a home machine. Still, I'm
feeling REAL dumb so if you want to flame me...well, I guess I've got it
coming. This was a real dumb move and I should have known better than to do
something like this. I DO know better...I just don't know what came over
me!...honest!!
What should I do?
Mark
