Major fsck-up

[Joe Zeff]

On 04/02/2013 01:59 AM, Junk wrote:
> Firstly, your probably screwed. fsck has one job and that's to make the file system consistent. It's not a disaster recovery tool. All it cares about is that the fs should make sense on next reboot.
>

If it were able to do that, I'd be OK.  PartedMagic can see the data, 
and I may be able to copy it from there to a partition on a different drive.

> Questions that may help find out what went wrong. Which distro are you using and what tools and procedures did you use to "add it to /home"? Is your /home in an LVM?

I thought I said: Fedora 17.  No LVM, although I didn't mention that. 
As a home user, I don't need to resize things dynamically, and LVM is 
the solution to a problem I don't have.