Partition Magic for linux?- Help! I broke something

[Harry Vorstenbosch]

It could be that all your partitions have moved. If you are able to logon in
runlevel 1 or 3 you would be able to use df (diskfree) and/or du (diskuse)
as root or equivalent you can look (cat /etc/fstab) to fstab and try to
mount the filesystems by hand mount -a mount -t ext3 /dev/hdaX /media/name
etc. Once again, probably your partitions are renamed from /hda3 to /hda2
and maybe your swap partition has also become another name. As soon as you
are able to mount for instance the "old" partition to a new dev as mentioned
above you can re-edit your fstab into the right sentence.

vi /etc/fstab use insert / replace Shift + : and wq to wright your new
fstab,

Once more goodluck,
Harry,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com>
To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: Partition Magic for linux?- Help! I broke something


> On 3/3/06, Harry Vorstenbosch <harry.vorstenbosch at zonnet.nl> wrote:
> > Qparted would do the job. But at first you have to dismount the volumes
> > which you want to resize, delete or move. A set of two floppy disk which
you
> > can provide via an active Partition Magic could also do the job.
> >
> > Success, Harry,
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com>
> > To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 4:24 PM
> > Subject: Partition Magic for linux?
> >
> >
> > > I need to remove two vfat partitions and make one large ext3
> > > partition. Is there a GUI program for linux that does this? If not,
> > > would someone be willing to explain to me how it is done with the
> > > command line tools? I have backed everything up and I know the device
> > > names in /dev.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > Dotan Cohen
> > >
> >
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> Because I could not delete partitions that I needed to delete (hda5
> and hda6, but hda8 is /home and I could not unmount /home), I did it
> with partition magic from a floppy. Now when I reboot the machine I
> get:
> fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda8
> /dev/hda8:
> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> filesystem.... [other stuff-should I post it all?]
>
> I can give the root password and log into runlevel 1 (I think). I
> commented out the lines for hda5 and hda6 in fstab, but the error
> persists. please, what can I do?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Dotan Cohen
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