[SOLVED] Powercut in the middle of partition move and resizing

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Ok so I finally got around to deleting my windows partition which was /dev/sda1 and moving and resizing my root partition /dev/sda2 to take up that space. But in the middle of the file system move there was a power cut and my computer shut down. I've attached a screenshot from gparted now and fdisk -l gives this:


$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x60c260c2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda2 1 2125 17061030 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 4605 4865 2096482+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4605 4865 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd99b3a6b

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 9729 78148161 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 1027 MB, 1027416576 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1990 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 1991 1003305 e W95 FAT16 (LBA)

So what can I do? I haven't tried booting from the partition but I don't think that will work. It looks pretty messed up. All of my data is on another hard drive so I can reinstall everything if I have to but that would be a major pain and take a long time.

[lisati]

Other more knowledgable forum users might be able to help further, but from the screenshot it looks as if you might be able to try the resizing option again.

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Yeah, but I think that would lose all the information there. I think what happened is that all my data is in the "unallocated" space and gparted was copying that to the end of the partition. So I want to resize the partition but I want it to use all the data in the unallocated space. I have a feeling I'm going to have to reinstall.

Is there somewhere that stores a list of packages I've installed so that I could try to recover that?

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Think I'm just going to wipe that partition and reinstall. Oh well.