Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't

[Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com>]

Waterhorse wrote:
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>   
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: lego_12239@rambler.ru 
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
> > Date: 01/11/10 19:24 
> > Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.10 sees my home partition, sid of Dec. 25 doesn't 
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:12:19AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> >     
> > > Sorry for reposting but my home system is effectively unusable.
> > >
> > > Late on Dec. 25 I rebooted my sid system and my home directory is no
> > > longer visible to my system even to Grub.  It contains my home
> > > directory.  An Ubuntu 8.10 live CD sees it just fine.  I normally keep
> > > everything updated unless apt-listbugs shows.
> > >
> > > FWIW it's /dev/hda10 on a 40GB drive.  The / directory which is
> > > /dev/hda9 is completely visible and boots just fine.
> > >
> > > Is anyone aware of any changes at that time that would cause this?
> > >
> > > Any diagnostic ideas?
> > >       
> >   What do you mean by "doesn't see"? no device or no filesystem?
> >     
>
> Good point!  - No device.
>   
> >   What does fdisk say?
> >     
>
> I'm replying right now from the Ubuntu system.  I'll reboot soon and answer that.  A problem with this broken system is my current setup is blasting my virtual terminals with iptables messages.
>   
Oops!  fdisk -l does see /dev/hda10 as Linux

fsck /dev/hda10 says:

The superblock could not be read ...

e2fsck -b 8193 says the same.

Thanks,

Paul