Re: Bad superblock and totaly not working fs after resize

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 06:56:11PM +0300, Rumen Krasstev wrote:
> 1. I installed SuSe 9.1 and during the installation there was front-end
> for parted (version 1.6.6. said rpm -ql parted). I used this tool to
> shrink (a rash action) my most important partition (25GB EXT3) to make
> space for the SuSe installation. I knew that if the beginning of the
> partition is not moved there is no danger (almost). So I shrink only the
> end (without moving the partition) or the front-end said like that. The
> installation was ok, but after reboot, none of mine Debian, Fedora or
> SuSe had success for mounting this partition, so I checked what's going
> on..

This is bizarre.  I don't have any theories about what went wrong.

Could you send the start of the partition?

        dd if=/dev/hda10 of=ext3-damaged-start bs=10k count=1

Thanks!
Andrew