I have over 1TB of data on a 2TB hard drive (HD).

After getting my new machine to work, albeit still incomplete and
running from a 1TB SSD, I wanted to "see" the data on the HD.

I had cloned the HD from the drive on the machine I am using now. It
had a several partitions but I wanted to delete all but my original
/home partition.

I did that in gparted and resized what remained.

BUT it no longer has a partition address. I would like it known by the
system as /data.

I decided to create a single partition of the whole drive and see what
haapened.

Nothing good. The system could not identify it.

I downloaded and installed R-Linux and got it started. It seems to have
found a large number of directories and files but will plod on for 3
hours or so longer.

What happens then, I hve yet to discover.

It does seem to be a must have utility.

Alan

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On 2/13/2024 1:56 PM, pinnerite wrote:
> I have over 1TB of data on a 2TB hard drive (HD).
>
> After getting my new machine to work, albeit still incomplete and
> running from a 1TB SSD, I wanted to "see" the data on the HD.
>
> I had cloned the HD from the drive on the machine I am using now. It
> had a several partitions but I wanted to delete all but my original
> /home partition.
>
> I did that in gparted and resized what remained.
>
> BUT it no longer has a partition address. I would like it known by the
> system as /data.
>
> I decided to create a single partition of the whole drive and see what
> haapened.
>
> Nothing good. The system could not identify it.
>
> I downloaded and installed R-Linux and got it started. It seems to have
> found a large number of directories and files but will plod on for 3
> hours or so longer.
>
> What happens then, I hve yet to discover.
>
> It does seem to be a must have utility.
>
> Alan
>

If I'm understanding you correctly, it's not a good idea to be
resizing a partition where there may have been damage.

A damaged thing needs to be transferred intact (bad hardware to good hardware),
and the files rescued from it and transferred to a known-good hardware device
and known-good file system. This may require two hard drives larger than the
thing needing work, to complete the transfer. You need hardware spares
in hand, to do good work.

Paul

On 2/13/24 1:56 PM, pinnerite wrote:
> I have over 1TB of data on a 2TB hard drive (HD).
>
> After getting my new machine to work, albeit still incomplete and
> running from a 1TB SSD, I wanted to "see" the data on the HD.
>
> I had cloned the HD from the drive on the machine I am using now. It
> had a several partitions but I wanted to delete all but my original
> /home partition.
>
> I did that in gparted and resized what remained.
>
> BUT it no longer has a partition address. I would like it known by the
> system as /data.
>
> I decided to create a single partition of the whole drive and see what
> haapened.
>
> Nothing good. The system could not identify it.
>
> I downloaded and installed R-Linux and got it started. It seems to have
> found a large number of directories and files but will plod on for 3
> hours or so longer.
>
> What happens then, I hve yet to discover.
>
> It does seem to be a must have utility.
>
> Alan
>
R-Linux is a very good program for recovering files. I have it and have
used it, with very good results.

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:26:30 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

> On 2/13/2024 1:56 PM, pinnerite wrote:
> > I have over 1TB of data on a 2TB hard drive (HD).
> >
> > After getting my new machine to work, albeit still incomplete and
> > running from a 1TB SSD, I wanted to "see" the data on the HD.
> >
> > I had cloned the HD from the drive on the machine I am using now. It
> > had a several partitions but I wanted to delete all but my original
> > /home partition.
> >
> > I did that in gparted and resized what remained.
> >
> > BUT it no longer has a partition address. I would like it known by the
> > system as /data.
> >
> > I decided to create a single partition of the whole drive and see what
> > haapened.
> >
> > Nothing good. The system could not identify it.
> >
> > I downloaded and installed R-Linux and got it started. It seems to have
> > found a large number of directories and files but will plod on for 3
> > hours or so longer.
> >
> > What happens then, I hve yet to discover.
> >
> > It does seem to be a must have utility.
> >
> > Alan
> >
>
> If I'm understanding you correctly, it's not a good idea to be
> resizing a partition where there may have been damage.
>
> A damaged thing needs to be transferred intact (bad hardware to good hardware),
> and the files rescued from it and transferred to a known-good hardware device
> and known-good file system. This may require two hard drives larger than the
> thing needing work, to complete the transfer. You need hardware spares
> in hand, to do good work.
>
> Paul

You are quite right. I discovered that though the data was intact I
could do nothing with it in situ. RLinux required that I copy it
elsewhere and I did not have a large enough elsehere.

So, I bit the bullet, repartitiond the drive and rsynced the data back
from the machine I am using now. At least I could carry on working.

Alan

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Le 14/02/2024 à 00:07, Nic a écrit :
> On 2/13/24 1:56 PM, pinnerite wrote:
> R-Linux is a very good program for recovering files. I have it and have
> used it, with very good results.

R-Linux ( https://www.r-studio.com/free-linux-recovery/ ) is pretty
good to recover datas burt I don't like at all its licence (a EULA
licence with limited rights for the user). It is cleary not a free (as
in freedom) licence (read more about its licence at
https://www.r-studio.com/includes/eula/PopupEulaDRFree.shtml?R-Linux ).

I prefer to use Photorec(read more at
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec ). Photorec is under a GNU
licence, a fully free (as in freedom) licence (read more at
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html ). The Photorec
package comes with TestDisk, a very popular software for testing disks.
Photorec has been ported for multiple platforms including BSD like, DOS,
Windows 9x

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