I'm no ext2 guru but I think you should go check out http://list.terminus.sk/fs-salvage. Send 'subscribe fs-salvage' to list at list.terminus.sk. So what do you *really* mean by 'resize'? This involves some sort of tool I imagine. Joshua Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 "The irony of this man being imprisoned in the United States and longing to return to once-Communist Russia so he can regain his right to free speach is simply staggering." On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Jon Schewe wrote: > Ok, I did something I probably should've have. I needed to resize two > partitions and backed up the data on those partitions, but not all the data > on the rest of the disk. I figured I'd be ok, I was wrong. I resized sda5 > to be larger and sda6 to be smaller, but still fill the same space. When I > rebooted sda7 and sda8 are hosed. I tried mounting them and can't find > superblock. I tried fsck, but it gives bad magic number in super-block. Is > there any way to recover the data on sda7 and sda8, or am I completly hosed? > I do have a tape backup of the critical files, but I'd rather not have to go > through the reinstall of the whole OS. For those interested sda7 and sda8 > contain /usr, /var(symlink to /opt/var, I was trying to fix this) and /opt. > I think I can get by without /var and /opt, but /usr would be really nice to > recover. The partition table is correct, cylinder by cylinder, just no > superblock. The partitions are ext2, so no journal. > > Am I hosed and I just do a fresh install and restore from tape? Or is there > some way to recover this? > > -- > Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe > For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels > nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any > powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all > creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that > is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >