sda2 is corrupted

[Jim]

On 07/05/2012 01:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 05.07.2012 19:15, schrieb Jim:
>> 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
> what does "mount /dev/sda /home" say in "dmesg"`
>
>> I have tried to use fedora and Gparted with no luck
> you should not play around before
> knowing what problem the drive has
>
> if it is a physical problem google for "ddrescue"
>
>> There are some important data files  I must save off of sda2
> what about BACKUPS?
>
> ff your data is important backups exists
> if your data is not important it does not matter
>
> why do people still need to learn it the hard way?
>
>
>
The home partition is on sda2



# mount -t ext4 /dev/sda2 /home
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,
        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
        dmesg | tail or so


  dmesg:

  927.983169] EXT4-fs (sda2): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem



This computer is a friend of mine and after this I did convince him 
about a backup external drive.

"why do people still need to learn it the hard way?"

Because they know better than you until they have a crash,then they listen and Blame the problem on you.



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