Data recovery from a damaged partition during resize
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I use Fedora KDE and I have separate drives for Linux home and root. Recently when both of these were on low storage, I decided to resize my other drive and extend both by 5GB.
After I cut off 10GB from my extra drive, to extend the drives I booted up a live CD and in KDE Partition Manager I moved up home partition since unallocated storage was upon it and added 5GB to it and extended the root drive by the remaining 5GB space.
Applying went successfully except plasmashell crashed for some reason during the process, but it didn't affect the process I believe. After I restarted and booted from my SSD, I couldn't login to my account. I was confused and at first thought that maybe the fstab with home drive mount instructions was broken. I logged in to TTY and started checking drives and saw that my home drive was mounted correctly, but almost empty. I went back to live CD and started checking different ways to recover data.
I tried testdisk, photorec, dmde, R-Studio and a few other options. I was able to recover some of my data, but in absolutely unstructured way. I was wondering is there a way to try to recover data with folders and other metadata.
Including a picture of my current drive situation (damaged - empty drive is highlighted):
Fdisk:


Asked by iamawebgeek
(101 rep)
May 19, 2025, 11:20 AM
Last activity: May 19, 2025, 02:38 PM
Last activity: May 19, 2025, 02:38 PM