I resized my root partition and now I can’t boot into it

Chiron8 · 2025-04-27 13:50:25

(Not a complete newbie but I didn’t know where else to post this)

Today I tried to resize my root partition by using parted on a live ISO because I want to dual boot with gentoo. Everything seemed to be fine but when I tried to boot back into the root partition I got this error:

https://github.com/Chiron8/Arch-wiki-pi … _9696.jpeg

I tried to run the fsck command but I always got an error saying ‘Can’t read next inode’

I think I may need to update the fstab file but I’m not really sure how to do this.

Luckily I did create a backup of my home directory just in case but I’d rather try and save the partition.

Extra information:

https://github.com/Chiron8/Arch-wiki-pi … _9695.jpeg

Partition 6 is my root partition, Partiton 8 is the new blank partition for gentoo.

seth · 2025-04-27 14:33:07

parted or gparted?
Did you forget to resize the filesystem first?
In the case restore the previous partition layout, should now work fine, shrink the FS first, then the partition - or use the gparted GUI to abstract that stuff for you.

Chiron8 · 2025-04-27 18:26:35

Thank you so much! I managed to boot into, however many of the system files are now corrupted. I unfortunately have to reinstall.

seth · 2025-04-27 18:29:47

If you didn't write there too much you can maybe fsck fix it.
If you've corrupted packages and want to avoid a re-installation

sudo LC_ALL=C pacman -Qkk | grep -v ', 0 altered files' | grep -v backup

will show how bad the situation is (typically re-installing packages in two passes can fix everything here)

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#1 2025-04-27 13:50:25

I resized my root partition and now I can’t boot into it

#2 2025-04-27 14:33:07

Re: I resized my root partition and now I can’t boot into it

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