On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:09:59 +0100, xendis...@gmx.com said:

> Yes I meant partition, not file, I did not say sda1 was the swap file, I
> said sda3 was swap (in my first post).

I was going by this comment you made:

        fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super block while trying to
        open /dev/sda1

> so I wiped the partion, via Gparted on the
> live CD, remade the partitions to the same scheme as I had last time and
> reformatted to ext3.

Game over, then. I'm sure it would have been fixable.

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