The file system type of my home partition is 'swsuspend'. Is this recoverable? Here's how this happened: I've got separate root, home, boot and swap partitions for my Arch Linux installation. Today I booted from a USB stick and mounted my root, boot and home partitions to `/mnt`, `/mnt/boot` and `/mnt/home` respectively. I then `arch-chroot`ed into `/mnt`. At this point, I did something I probably shouldn't have done, and ran `startx`. An X-windows interface popped up, but was unresponsive. I eventually pressed the shutdown button on my computer and Arch shut down. Now when I boot up, my home partition fails to mount, giving the error unknown filesystem type "swsuspend" Will I need to recreate the partition from scratch (losing all my data on `/home` or is this recoverable somehow?

Search for other superblock on the partiton: dumpe2fs /dev/sdxn | grep -i superblock You should be able to find some and recover from there.

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