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jamieo
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 Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 7:43 am Post subject: URGENT - Filesystem disaster! |
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Oh dear.
Happily running gentoo for several months now, but find I need more disk space. So I delete my old SuSE partition and want to resize my gentoo root partition. I know I should have used some kind of bootable linux and gnu parted, but I didn't, I used Windows and Paragon Partition Manager (Partition Magic 7 wouldn't touch the ext3 partition). It resized normally, no errors and all seemed fine. However, it wouldn't boot after that 
Booting from a gentoo cd and then mounting the partition works, but it seems it's completely knackered the filesystem up. Looking at the file '/etc/fstab' for instance shows me some .ebuild file, some directories are now files, etc.
I'm not sure how ext3 is structured, but it seems it's messed up some kind of index so the files and directories are all pointing to the wrong files on disk. duh.
Anyone know of any tools that can help me recover this. To me it seems this is a completely lost cause. I've lost lots of things I really needed.
What I've learned:
- I really should back up more often (my last back up was several weeks ago)
- Do not use Paragon Partition Manager again
Of course this is really an opportunity for a nice new 1.4 install...
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jamieo
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 7:50 am Post subject: |
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| Just to say, at the moment I haven't done anything to the partition, not wanting to make matters worse - if they can be! |
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ebrostig
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It seems like it is hosed...
Messing around with partitions is always a good path towards disaster  I don't know the partition editor you used, so I'm going to refrain from commenting on it. However, you should have consulted documentation for the best practice on how to resize partitions with different types of filesystems.
I know, I know, too late now! I'm sorry, but I think you will have to start over again since it seems like the partition is currently corrupt.
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pjp
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Once you decide it is hosed, you can try an fsck.
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