Hi, ** > Hi I have run win98 defrag on my c:\ drive, dev/hda1 partition and it ** > has destoyed the ext2 partitions on the same drive. Linux no longer ** > boots, I have tried the rescue system and used e2fsck but it reported ** > that it could not find a valid ext2fs, inode problems etc The ** > partitions affected are /var /usr/local /home /tmp and swap Is this ** > mess recoverable? Other than a re-installation. Many thanksRich ** ** This has happend to me too. Not usinf defrag but while creating a _VERY_ ** large file. I've had it on defrag too.... ** Question, did you use fips to split your partition? It appears that ** Win9x does not respect the partition table and only 'listens' to the FAT ** (only when using FAT32??) and happily writes straight across the ** tition boundaries, flawlessly I must add. The only Windows program I ** know of that actually reads the Partition Table is WinRAR. FIPs does something funny with my partition table on a 38G drive (worrying). ** Well, I had to reinstall the lot, especcially since the affected ** partitions were / and /boot :-(((((((( ** ** But more important is to solve this once and for all!!! ** ** I used a program called partb.exe This is a freeware podos partition and ** FAT editor and I adjusted the FAT with errors (displayed in red) so they ** had the correct info on the partitions and all was well. ** ** Later I ran Partition Magic 5 and it reported no errors. Maybe it too ** can solve it but I wanted to actually see what was going on. PM5 makes life even more difficult. It trashed my partition table totally. Fortunately I had an fdisk dump. I decided to rebuild the system in the end with static partition sizes from scratch. This worked nicely. Backup/ restore might be a good idea onto a clean system. HTH Chris. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/