[tlug] Hosed my home directory

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

TLUG,

Fortunately, this happened on my MythTV machine, so no crucial data is 
at stake here.

I have the home directory mounted on a separate partition. There was an 
additional partition I didn't need anymore, so I removed it and resized 
the home partition to take up the extra space.

But the home partition got reformatted in the process. There was one 
user directory, called "mythtv", and now it's gone.

So when I try to boot the machine, it gives me all sorts of warnings and 
mayhem about not finding home directories. When all is said and done, I 
end up at a command prompt.

I tried to go into the home directory and create a directory called 
"mythtv", but it said that it was a "read only filesystem".

Is there a way I can get the home partition mounted, and get my user 
directory back in there?

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Dave M G
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
Kernel 2.6.20-15-generic
Pentium D Dual Core Processor