Hi!
I think I made somthing stupid...

When i installed RH i made the /var partition to small... (mutch to small), so i got the idea to use partition magic to resize my /var and at the same time i resized the /tmp partition...
The /tmp partition mounts fine, but not the /var

The disk locks somthing like this:
/dev/hda1 window$
/dev/hda2 /boot
/dev/hda3 /
/dev/hda4 this one claimes to be win95 ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 swap
/dev/hda6 /var (broken)
/dev/hda7 /tmp

is there somting i can do to fix this?

More info!
When i do mount -a I get mount: special device LABEL=/var does not exist
so I tried to do mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /mnt i get bad superblock on /dev/hda6...

Oh btw Im using Fedora test3

lol I don't think pm can resise linux partitions due to filesystem. I could be wrong though

pm has support for ext2 and 3, thats not the problem, i think... that depends.... =)

I just got a whacky ides.... will the system boot without a /var, and so is it possibel to get the thing to work without a reinstall?

ok, glad to know another prog is suporting linux

next time try parted, supposedly same but for linux

uhm maybe it will run.. I doubt i and would not try it,

exodist: i will, belive me i will =) not use pm again that is =)

lol the way you typed that amuses me for some reason... heh good plan :-D

Howzit

I have used Pm before with no side effects and it´s a excellent chioce for a comercial product but parted works well for someone that doesn't want to spend the extra buck. I suggest that u have a var as most apps use this area like you crontab which does your house keeping. All logs get written to this area which could be critical for futur errors u may encounter. Therefor I think it´s a pretty important to have a /var.

try these cmds to see if u r able to recover /var. As u said in the post it has a bad superblock therfor it can't see any meta data and how to get to the next block try this cmd to replace the bad block e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/?, when doing this partition must be unmounted. fsck -t /dev/?

Last but not least can delete partion and recreate it from scartch but not sure if apps will creat the dir needed automatically may have to copy from another machine or maybe reinstall

hope this works for u

chow

Thanks for the help, I'm reinstalling now (seams to be less work), and I'm staying away from pm =)

Thank you!