Partition Magic for linux?- Help! I broke something

[John DeCarlo]

On 3/3/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?]
>
> Dotan,

Partitions are numbered based on how many of them there are.  The first
partition on /dev/hda is /dev/hda1.

I believe you combined two or more partitions into one.  Now, instead of 8
partitions on /dev/hda, you have 7 or 6.  Which means your /home is now on
/dev/hda7 or /dev/hda6.

In a terminal, if you type "sudo fdisk -l" it will list all your partitions
and what types they are.

To fix /etc/fstab, you will need to change the reference to /dev/hda8 and
replace it with whatever your /home partition is now numbered.

--
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
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