On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 13:47 -0400, Jim wrote: > 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 > > So when the system reboots you see a /dev/sda2 device, correct? When you type "mount /dev/sda2 /somewhere" (where "somewhere" is some existing, handy mount point) you get an error message saying that the file system isn't recognized or can't be determined? If you type "mount -t ext4 /dev/sda2 /somewhere" you get an error message, e.g., "not an ext4 filesystem?" What I would try next is running "e2fsck -n /dev/sda2" and see what that says. The "-n" to insure nothing is written to the disk (just in case). Try it and post the results to the list here. The partition superblock may be corrupted and I have no idea what e2fsck will try to do if that's the case. It may just give up without looking at the backup superblock. -- Mark C. Allman, PMP, CSM Founder, See How You Ski Allman Professional Consulting, Inc., www.allmanpc.com 617-947-4263, Twitter: @allmanpc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org