trashed my fs again :(

[leshii]

Ok so i tried again to resize my 90G / partition(reiserfs 3.6) to leave 30G free space as it is / fs i am using a rescue cd .
The first time i tried i used qtparted with disasterous consequences ie having to --rebuild-tree leaving / fs bootable but not really usable.
so emerged -e system then world and then all is ok but still leaving me with huge root fs and no free space.
So i tried again this time using a utility called 7tools partition manager, now though this is a win util i thought well i'll give it a try. second mistake.
On rebooting i found that gentoo could no longer boot which wasnt a supprise as i had expected that i would need to run fsck tofix any minor corruptions, so i booted into rescue cd and ran fsck /dev/hda8 this went through and this time told me that all corruptions were fixable using fsck.reiserfs --fix-fixable. So i ran this then ran fsck /dev/hda8 again and now fsck is happy that partition is good. great i thought.
However on trying to boot now i get as far as mounting / fs then freeing unused kernel mem and then nothing. Keyboard will accep input and lights on keyboard still work but it gets no further. Rebooting into rescue cd and mounting /dev/hda8 all seems ok but still i cannot boot.
Does anyone have any suggestions.

[widan]

You likely have a corrupt /sbin/init, or one of the libs it uses is corrupt. Try to boot with init=/bin/bash (or init=/bin/bb if even bash fails ). But there is probably more corrupt files. reiserfsck will (try to) bring the filesystem to a consistent state from a metadata point of view (ie the internal trees are not corrupt, ...), but it will not be able to restore data that was damaged because some of the blocks a file was using "disappeared" because of the resize.

By the way, the proper procedure for resizing reiserfs partitions is:

1. Make backups
   
2. Use resize_reiserfs to shrink the filesystem
   
3. THEN resize the partition itself

It looks like you tried to do (3) before (2).