Major fsck-up
Well, I've managed to make matters worse on my desktop. Before doing a
clean install, I decided to clean up my partitions a tad. There's an
old partition that used to be /boot until new requirements made it too
small and was just sitting there, unmounted, so I used a LiveCD and
Gparted to remove it. Then, I added it to /home. Alas, the program
hung before completing the job and now, the partition's unrecognizable.
Gparted can't correct it and parted can't read it. Using e2fsck from
a command line tells me that the superblock is wrong, and I can't work
out how to find out where to tell me to look. And, probably because of
this, my installation now hangs before it gets far enough for me to get
to a CLI. I do have a reasonably recent backup, if all goes bad, but
I'd rather not have to use it. Does anybody know how to find it, or
otherwise recover the partition? I'm tempted to use touch /forcefsck,
to see if that works, but somehow, I doubt it. Advice, or pointers to
suggestions will be very, very welcome.