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

[Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com>]

Mark wrote:
> 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?
>
> I had a similar problem not too long ago and used cfdisk to rebuild 
> the partition table; somehow it got messed up and cfdisk fixed it, via 
> using an Ubuntu 9.10 Live CD.  Might be worth looking into for you.  I 
> think it worked because Ubuntu recognized the partitions, so it was 
> able to rebuild the partition table based on sector locations of 
> partitions it recognized.  Just a guess though, that's getting beyond 
> my realm of knowledge.

Thanks, Mark.

I won't rule this out but it seems that my partition table *might* be Ok 
since both my sick system and Ubuntu both see the Partition as a "Linux" 
partition.  Hopefully someone will comment if my logic is weak.

Paul