On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 22:30 +0100, Brendan.Halpin wrote:
> I've been using gparted (live CD) to move and resize partitions today, and it has failed on one of them. It has somehow lost the file system on the partition I had /var mounted on. That is, it complained of a problem moving/resizing and subsequently the display reported the file system as unknown rather than ext3.
>> Everything substantive is backed up in one form or another (web site, databases, in particular) but it would be preferable not to have to restore it manually. Is there a way of re-establishing the file system (ext3)? I mounted it immediately after gparted told me it no longer knew what file system it was, but after rebooting it no longer worked.
>> Mounting fails with a bad block error, and the backup blocks don't seem to work.
>> All suggestions welcome!
>> Brendan
gpart:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpart
Saved me in the past!
Fully recommend it.
Phil
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