> Richard E. Hawkins writes: > > I then made a partition the same size as /home at the very end of > > the disk, and used dd to copy the old partition to the new.
> *Exactly* what dd command did you give? What does the new partition look > like now? dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/dev/hda7 where 6 was the old location > I am very much afraid that you copied the new partition onto the old. If > so, it's hopeless. nope, I've found it, and it was more subtle than I expected. Looking closely at the partition table, even though it started & ended at the same location, it didn't have the same number of blocks. I deleted again, reconstructed the swap partitions leading into it, and it came back. I then made half a gig of compressed tarballs and stuffed them on a spare drive on my boss's machine . . . rick
