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.

  • mvirts@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Seconded. This is one of the things testdisk is built for, searching for lost filesystems and adding partition table entries to recover them.