How can I recover XFS partitions from a formatted HD?
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I deleted the partition table of my HD. I wanted to format another one, but by mistake, I formatted the wrong one. Then I also created some new partition on it. Now I would like, if possible, to recover my old data. The old configuration was this:
A primary NTFS partition with Windows, and a secondary partition with four logical partitions: a swap and three XFS partitions (two for Ubuntu and OpenSuSE, and one with the home for both systems).
This is the output I get when I run gpart
in a terminal:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo gpart /dev/sdb
Begin scan...
Possible partition(Windows NT/W2K FS), size(39997mb), offset(0mb)
Possible extended partition at offset(39997mb)
Possible partition(Linux swap), size(8189mb), offset(39997mb)
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(40942mb), offset(48187mb)
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(40942mb), offset(89149mb)
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(175044mb), offset(130112mb)
End scan.Checking partitions...
Partition(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX): primary
Partition(Linux swap or Solaris/x86): logical
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): logical
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): orphaned logical
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): orphaned logical
Ok.Guessed primary partition table:
Primary partition(1)
type: 007(0x07)(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX)
size: 39997mb #s(81915360) s(63-81915422)
chs: (0/1/1)-(1023/254/63)d (0/1/1)-(5098/254/51)rPrimary partition(2)
type: 015(0x0F)(Extended DOS, LBA)
size: 265245mb #s(543221849) s(81915435-625137283)
chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (5099/0/1)-(38912/254/2)rPrimary partition(3)
type: 000(0x00)(unused)
size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)rPrimary partition(4)
type: 000(0x00)(unused)
size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
Looking the first eight lines, it seems the data are still there... but I don't know how to recover them. I have a free second HD of about 500 GB (the formatted one is 320 GB) that I can use for the recovery process.
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