Mike Martin wrote: > Well I've made some progress, I have my /,boot and home via parted rescue > Only problem is that now parted only sees swap as p4, rather than an > extended partition with swap and my main 711 Gig storage partition You know where the extended partition starts and ends, you just miss the end-of-swap/begin-of-data position. I suppose your swap partition is a well rounded number (1G? 1.5G? 2G?). Can you read any logs generated when the system was ok? Or you can try a trick like this: [root@thinkpad ~]# file -s /dev/sda7 /dev/sda7: Linux/i386 swap file (new style) 1 (4K pages) size 1222821 pages [root@thinkpad ~]$ bc bc 1.06 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. 1222821*4096 5008674816 quit [rragusa@thinkpad ~]$ where I understand that my swap partition is around 5,000,000,000 bytes, which is probably what fdisk gave me for "+5G". I think the partition size is written into swap space by mkswap, so you will have the correct number even if you temporarily create a bigger swap extending partly into your 711G partition. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- 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
