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Great news! I fixed my filesystem.

This is an Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 LUKS LVM system disk that I mistakenly reformatted some years ago. It's one thing to fsck an ordinary ext2 partition, and quite another to go thru the complex steps required to set up the file system for recovery of an encrypted LVM ...

Can we give this another try?

Apparently entering '318' to the starting sector was not the correct fix. It created an additional sector, rather than repairing the original. Maybe I took the instructions wrong?

Can this copied HD be used for a second try, or do I need to re-copy the original ...

Unfortunately, this didn't work. My notes:

Starting over, I click analyze and run that again. Terminal at that point is:


TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sda - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 364801 255 63 ...

Begging your understanding here, but I want to get this correct. The branches from [Analyse] [Advanced] [Geometry] and [Options] seem to use "243061471 1707156878 1464095408-type" entries, not " 0 1 1 ". Am I on the right page?

I'm using TestDisk 7.0.

Thank you for your patience! I hope this will be what you are looking for:



Fri Dec 15 19:00:39 2017
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Linux, kernel 4.4.103-1-MANJARO (#1 SMP PREEMPT ...

The above testdisk.log is incorrect. I ran the wrong sectoring.

The correct testdisk.log:



TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sda - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 364801 255 63
Partition Start End Size in ...

Sure!




Mon Dec 11 20:39:14 2017
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Linux, kernel 4.4.103-1-MANJARO (#1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 30 13:56:15 UTC 2017) x86_64
Compiler: GCC 6.3
Compilation ...

I pledge something nice for whoever helps me to recover some important files from a hard disk that I have foolishly garbaged. I also pledge a matching reward to Christophe Grenier for his generosity in running this forum, and for being so helpful to us all! I won't say what the reward is, only that ...