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Topic: GParted crashed and messed up my partition: What can I do?

I've tried to move 200 GB with GParted LiveCD to the right to get more space for my root partition. But after 11 hours and 80%, GParted crashed during copying. I've tried to undo and to move the partition back to the left but now GParted from LiveCD and Ubuntu Herd 4 crashes always within minutes.

I've seen that GParted uses "e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sda2" to check and repair the partition. So I've opened the terminal and entered the command.

30 hours later e2fsck told me that there will be still errors but the only data I get are lots of numbers in the "lost+found" directory.

Can I do anything before I format the partition?

THX for your HELP!

P.S. No, I haven't backed up 200 GB before.

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Re: GParted crashed and messed up my partition: What can I do?

gpfu wrote:

P.S. No, I haven't backed up 200 GB before.

:-/
Try to run testdisk, maybe it can do something for you...

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Re: GParted crashed and messed up my partition: What can I do?

LarryT wrote:

Try to run testdisk, maybe it can do something for you...

testdisk /dev/sda2

Like that? Without any options?

THX!

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Re: GParted crashed and messed up my partition: What can I do?

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

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Re: GParted crashed and messed up my partition: What can I do?

LarryT wrote:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Thank you for this link!

The main developer told me to use PhotoRec. Maybe this tool can recover some files.

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Re: GParted crashed and messed up my partition: What can I do?

LarryT wrote:

Try to run testdisk, maybe it can do something for you...

I'm afraid not. I only get many thousand very small and chopped up files. Altogether 193 GB.

R-Linux recovered about 5 GB useful data.

Are there any alternatives to TestDisk and R-Linux?

Any further ideas?

THX!

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Re: GParted crashed and messed up my partition: What can I do?

Restore the backup you didn't preform :-/

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Re: GParted crashed and messed up my partition: What can I do?

LarryT wrote:

Restore the backup you didn't preform :-/

Awesome!

GParted messed up my partition! Not me!

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Re: GParted crashed and messed up my partition: What can I do?

What I would suggest for next time: before you do a partician next time, make a 50 GB backup, THEN preform the partician...