Volume Group Extended and lost data

[moacirfaria]

Ok Remy...

the process start to show me some different lines now...


TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/mapper/ssim_vol_storagearchive-storagearchive - 7516 GB / 6999 GiB - CHS 14679949312 1 1
Analyse cylinder 2644803584/1795047423: 47%


Invalid FAT boot sector
0 D FAT32 LBA 839176087 3643466118 2804290032
FAT32 LBA 839176087 3643466118 2804290032
Invalid FAT boot sector
0 D FAT16 LBA 4952136021 6939545034 1987409014
FAT16 LBA 4952136021 6939545034 1987409014

[remy]

FAT32 1.5TB ??? false positive, or you forgot to told me something...
Or perhaps detection of older filesytem on the disks you just add, for example you could have had a "very big" FAT32 space on a raid volume (raid5 with 4 disk of 5GB ?)
Or your LVM was splitted in several LV, but testdisk should have recover these LV also.

[moacirfaria]

FAT32 1.5TB ??? false positive, or you forgot to told me something...
Or perhaps detection of older filesytem on the disks you just add, for example you could have had a "very big" FAT32 space on a raid volume (raid5 with 4 disk of 5GB ?)
Or your LVM was splitted in several LV, but testdisk should have recover these LV also.

Where do you saw this information?
I really don't know!

In the LV that I need to recovery I just have 4 PV's with 512Gb each, but this LV was increased to 7TB and I don't want to include and exclude the disks more and more times.

I am running the testdisk in the 7Tb volume...

I am expecting that when the "analisys" finish, I can see the files and then try to do something...Am I correct?

[remy]

FAT32 begins sector 839176087, ends sector 3643466118, size = 2804290032 sectors.
2804290032 * 512 = 1435796496384 bytes. = 1.44TB

[moacirfaria]

Hi Remy,

I did all changes that you told me to do and started the process again!
Look at this picture the actual status?

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Do you believe that this is the correct cenario?

Thank you very much!

Moacir Faria

[remy]

It looks still like false positive detections. Do you know what was your filesystem embedded in your LV before ?

[moacirfaria]

It looks still like false positive detections. Do you know what was your filesystem embedded in your LV before ?

vfs

Do you have some tip?

Thank you!

MF

[remy]

I'm afraid that trying to recover filesystem structure will be time loosing. Did you have results with photorec ? What is the kind of files that you are looking for ?

[moacirfaria]

I'm afraid that trying to recover filesystem structure will be time loosing. Did you have results with photorec ? What is the kind of files that you are looking for ?

I'm afraid too! Yes, I did some results with photorec, but I can't receive all files and the files that I received was without the correct names.

I have 6 types of files in this archive (edx, key, vdx, sar, ndx, tdx).

Photorec did a recovery of a lot of files but, all of them, without a name and probably only the text files and 2 or 3 big files that came with another extension

I really need to try to recovery this filesystem structure because without it I believe that the files don't make any sense.

Thank you for your help and attention... if you have more tips I will really appreciate.

MF

[remy]

Sorry, no more idea with testdisk or photorec usage...