Somehow, I am not sure how, the partition on one of my volumes became corrupted. I believe this happened from my misuse of a FreeDOS bootable USB drive. In any case, I have been attempting to restore the partition with testdisk and have not been able to do so. The volume should be an LVM volume, residing on top of a Linux RAID array consisting of four hard disks. The RAID array appears to be solidly recognized, no issue there. The issue is when I try to restore the partition, I am utterly confused about what I should input for geometry. testdisk sees an "MS Data" partition and can see there is an XFS filesystem on the disk; however it never restores it to the correct size (4.5TB). Instead it attempts to restore the disk to 524G. It also never seems to get the partition to start on a physical sector boundary, or use the correct sector size.
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crw@bilby:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/md0
GPT PMBR size mismatch (1098853631 != 200894463) will be corrected by w(rite).
Disk /dev/md0: 4.1 TiB, 4500904476672 bytes, 8790829056 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 1048576 bytes / 3145728 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/md0p1 1 1098853631 1098853631 524G ee GPT
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.Sad fact: there is no backup, as the whole point of this was that the RAID array would be the point of redundancy. This array has survived a looong time, every disk has been replaced at least once if not twice over the past ten (twelve? or more?) years. This is a home setup. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
