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. -- Keith Edmunds +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tiger Computing Ltd | Helping businesses make the most of Linux | | "The Linux Specialists" | http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-08-04 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset