While I was switching distros, I accidentally broke a partition. I’m almost certain that all the data is there, but it doesn’t have a filesystem (I used ext4). Is there anything I can do to fix it, similar to changing the file extension without changing the contents. PS: It’s a data partition. I was trying to resize it, accidentally also moved it to the left, found out that it was taking forever to move it, so I cancelled it. Finished the move to the left operation (I think), but it threw up an error about the filesystem. I don’t remember what it was, though.

Thanks to everyone who suggested Testdisk. It worked almost perfectly.

  • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    7 months ago

    use dd and save the whole drive to a bigger drive or maybe compress it with gzip while using dd to save it to a slightly smaller one

    command would be something like this:

    dd if=/dev/…/myparition|gzip status=progress > /mnt/external_hd/mypartition.gzip