----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Expert mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 3:34 AM
Subject: [expert] Ooooops! I think I killed it!
> I'm afraid I've got something extremely stupid to confess. I was monkeying
> around this evening resizing some partitions. I made the Windows partition
> smaller, which freed up about 3.5GB, which I turned around and turned into
a
> part of Linux's file system as /home. Well, it's a little late in the day
> and it slips my mind to that if I don't format the partition it won't
work,
> and if I do then...well...I'm not sure what I was thinking. At any rate,
now
> when I attempt to boot my Linux system I get kernel panic. The message I
get
> is that it can't mount (root) fs.
>
> Am I correct in assuming that I've toasted my file system, or is there
> something I can do to correct this HUMUNGOUSly STUPID error in judgement.
> This ranks right up there with one of the DUMBEST things I've EVER done. I
> didn't have any "can't do without" data there yet, but everyone's mail and
> stuff is there. O, just for the record this is a home machine. Still, I'm
> feeling REAL dumb so if you want to flame me...well, I guess I've got it
> coming. This was a real dumb move and I should have known better than to
do
> something like this. I DO know better...I just don't know what came over
> me!...honest!!
>
> What should I do?
maybe just format the new partition and symlink it to /home.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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