One tool that I find helpful is 'cfg2html', which documents a whole bunch of
stuff, including partition configuration and a few details that contribute to
partition recovery. Doesn't help after the fact, but take it as food for
thought to assist with future problems.
>________________________________
> From: Jim <binary...@comcast.net>
>To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
>Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 1:47 PM
>Subject: Re: sda2 is corrupted
>
>On 07/05/2012 01:23 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
>> On 05.07.2012 19:15, Jim wrote:
>>> Fedora 17
>>>
>>> the sda2 /home is corruoted and it changed /home partitiion to UNKNOWN
>>> and it won't let me change the label back to /home
>>>
>>> I have tried to use fedora and Gparted with no luck.
>>>
>>> There are some important data files I must save off of sda2
>>>
>>>
>> 1. What is the type of that file system?
>ext4
>> 2. Can you paste error messages related to this partition?
>No , Gparted can not mount it either
>> 3. What happens after system reboot? Does it mount or not?
>No , only / is mounted
>>
>>
>> Mateusz Marzantowicz
>
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