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by maya
29 Aug 2013, 02:31
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: TestDisk sees partition quickly, restores, but damaged FS?
Replies: 3
Views: 3696

Re: TestDisk sees partition quickly, restores, but damaged F

Thank you!

Although that seems to be working, fsck keeps hitting memory allocation issues, and I am forced to start all over again.

I found out one could assign a scratch file via the /etc/e2fsck.conf file, but I'm not sure if that's helping or anything.

Any advice how to get this to not quit ...
by maya
24 Aug 2013, 18:40
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: TestDisk sees partition quickly, restores, but damaged FS?
Replies: 3
Views: 3696

TestDisk sees partition quickly, restores, but damaged FS?

Hello!

I have a 4TB HDD which was accidentally formatted as a Linux raid.

Upon using TestDisk, it quickly found the partition I overwrote, and wrote in a new GPT partition table.

However, the filesystem seems to be damaged, or that's what TestDIsk told me when I tried viewing files.

I started to ...