One tool that I find helpful is 'cfg2html', which documents a whole bunch of stuff, including partition configuration and a few details that contribute to partition recovery. Doesn't help after the fact, but take it as food for thought to assist with future problems.
From: Jim <binarynut@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: sda2 is corrupted
On 07/05/2012 01:23 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> On 05.07.2012 19:15, Jim wrote:
>> Fedora 17
>>
>> the sda2 /home is corruoted and it changed /home partitiion to UNKNOWN
>> and it won't let me change the label back to /home
>>
>> I have tried to use fedora and Gparted with no luck.
>>
>> There are some important data files I must save off of sda2
>>
>>
> 1. What is the type of that file system?
ext4
> 2. Can you paste error messages related to this partition?
No , Gparted can not mount it either
> 3. What happens after system reboot? Does it mount or not?
No , only / is mounted
>
>
> Mateusz Marzantowicz
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