Ian McDonald wrote:

It's trying to mount the filesystem as ext3 so go into the file /etc/fstab and change references of ext3 to ext2 and try again.

Once you've got this sorted have a look at gparted as this can resize ext3 filesystems just fine and also comes in a boot cd: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828

Ian

Thanks for replying, Ian. After posting, I reversed in Knoppix all that I'd done to my hdb2 and my fstab and could boot up successfully in Fedora again. Given your alerting me to gparted, I've downloaded it and will now try my resizing with it instead. Thanks again, Leslie