Re: Major fsck-up

2013-04-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/02/2013 11:47 AM, Junk wrote: I think it might be to do with moving the start of the partition. I see from the docs that Parted can't move the start of an ext2 or ext3 partition so I'm guessing your home was ext4 or something amenable. Probably the moving of the start of a partition invo

Re: Major fsck-up

2013-04-02 Thread Junk
On 2 Apr 2013, at 19:21, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/02/2013 06:40 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: >> You probably need to be clear about exactly what you mean by added what >> was /boot to /home... >> >> What did the partition table look like before and after you did the work? >> >> was /boot before /hom

Re: Major fsck-up

2013-04-02 Thread John Pilkington
On 02/04/13 19:09, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/02/2013 01:22 AM, John Pilkington wrote: I don't know how different all this is from the latest-and-greatest but it might be relevant. I don't use any LVM, so probably not. Good luck with getting your laptop working again. I tried the Scientific Linu

Re: Major fsck-up

2013-04-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/02/2013 06:40 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: You probably need to be clear about exactly what you mean by added what was /boot to /home... What did the partition table look like before and after you did the work? was /boot before /home and you enlarged /home to be /home+/boot (the partition befo

Re: Major fsck-up

2013-04-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/02/2013 01:59 AM, Junk wrote: Firstly, your probably screwed. fsck has one job and that's to make the file system consistent. It's not a disaster recovery tool. All it cares about is that the fs should make sense on next reboot. If it were able to do that, I'd be OK. PartedMagic can s

Re: Major fsck-up

2013-04-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/02/2013 01:22 AM, John Pilkington wrote: I don't know how different all this is from the latest-and-greatest but it might be relevant. I don't use any LVM, so probably not. Good luck with getting your laptop working again. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: Major fsck-up

2013-04-02 Thread Roger Heflin
You probably need to be clear about exactly what you mean by added what was /boot to /home... What did the partition table look like before and after you did the work? was /boot before /home and you enlarged /home to be /home+/boot (the partition before /home?)? On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:39 PM,

Re: Major fsck-up

2013-04-02 Thread Junk
> Well, I've managed to make matters worse on my desktop. Before doing a clean > install, I decided to clean up my partitions a tad. There's an old partition > that used to be /boot until new requirements made it too small and was just > sitting there, unmounted, so I used a LiveCD and Gpart

Re: Major fsck-up

2013-04-02 Thread John Pilkington
On 02/04/13 00:39, Joe Zeff wrote: Well, I've managed to make matters worse on my desktop. Before doing a clean install, I decided to clean up my partitions a tad. There's an old partition that used to be /boot until new requirements made it too small and was just sitting there, unmounted, so I

Major fsck-up

2013-04-01 Thread Joe Zeff
Well, I've managed to make matters worse on my desktop. Before doing a clean install, I decided to clean up my partitions a tad. There's an old partition that used to be /boot until new requirements made it too small and was just sitting there, unmounted, so I used a LiveCD and Gparted to rem