Multiple non-unique files...

[TTIO]

Somehow, Windows has managed to create tons of files of the same name in the same directory, and now Fedora refuses to boot as a result. As there are so many and fsck renames them to the same thing, I can't even use fsck in single user mode to fix it

I'm attempting to copy everything else onto an external hard drive and then boot up a live system without mounting any drives so that I can reformat the partition on which all of these multiple files are, but does anyone know of any less drastic ways to solve this?

[TTIO]

Ok, cancel that. I just need to know how to swap sdb5 and 6 around now, or else tell Fedora to mount them the other way around (sdb5 was my /home, but that's now sdb6. sdb6 was my /usr, and that's now sdb5).

Anyone know how to do this?

[rituraj.goswami]

change your /etc/fstab

[TTIO]

Tried that, but I couldn't find out the UUID for the new partition. I thought maybe I could just re-install and fix it like that, but it came up with an error during the installation.

Anyone know how to fix this?

The error log is 3MB, so I've uploaded it here as opposed to on this site.

[bigtomrodney]

Tried that, but I couldn't find out the UUID for the new partition.

There are two things you can do:

• You can replace the UUID with the /dev/sd?? format name. This will work as long as you don't split/merge any partitions and change the order again. (in fact this is the old way of doing things)
• Use the command blkid to retrieve the UUID of the partition. You will need to do this as root.

[TTIO]

I'm thinking I'm beyond that point now

But I'll bear that in mind in case this ever happens again, thanks.