No option to scan only unallocated space
Posted: 08 Aug 2022, 08:01
Unfortunately this is the same issue as viewtopic.php?t=10454, viewtopic.php?t=7906, and viewtopic.php?t=8619 by just another user of photorec.
The disk I'm trying to recover data from is a 2 TB SATA disk with a GPT partition table, and one partition with an ext4 file system on it:
You can see all the screens until photorec does _not_ ask whether to scan only free space or the whole partition and rather skip directly to the scanning of the whole partition:
I was using the disk until I accidentally deleted a directory with lots of files, which I'm trying to recover with photorec now. I use the disk as a movie disk, so it mainly consists of large, mostly .mp4 files. The disk is healthy; the only partition (ext4) is mountable, and accessible. I left it unmounted since the accidental deletion. I start photorec as And not able to scan only the free space, it is very disturbing because I don't wanna scan a 2 TB disk full of .mp4 files for .mp4 files, which will be like cloning the disk! Please help. Thanks!
The disk I'm trying to recover data from is a 2 TB SATA disk with a GPT partition table, and one partition with an ext4 file system on it:
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$ sudo parted -l
<other disks>
Model: ATA ST2000DM006-2DM1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 2000GB 2000GB ext4
<other disks>
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sudo photorec