I was trying to resize my LUKS crypt following this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Resizing_LVM-on-LUKS and I got to the partition resize with parted and seriously screwed things up. I typed 870 as the new size and forgot to put a G on the end. It shrunk my partition down to 870M I immediately resized it to 870G but by then the damage was done. Luckily I could still decrypt the LUKS crypt but I couldn't get my Logical Volume to even have a device file on the system. LVM recognized the volume as existing and showed the device file it was attached to but the file didn't exist and it showed it as having no filesystem. I did vgscan --mknodes and it successfully generated the device file but testdisk still wouldn't show it. I recreated the volume and put a new ext4 filesystem on it and now testdisk will show the drive but scanning yields nothing. I get a whole bunch of ext4 entries but all of them either say Can't open filesystem or No files found. Is there anyway for me to recover the filesystem that was on the disk? I don't want to write any data to it until I get what's on it off of it unless that's not possible.
EDIT: After poking around the real thing I need help with is recovering files from a previous ext4 filesystem. My drive had an ext4 system on it and that has since been overwritten with a new one however all the data from the old system still exists as shown by sudo dd if=/dev/Storage/Storage bs=1M | strings -fn 16. The only thing I did after my screw up was put a new ext4 FS on and nothing else so most of my data is probably still intact. I need to recover that data.
pvdisplay shows the following
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/mapper/Storage
VG Name Storage
PV Size 931.51 GiB / not usable 3.68 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 238466
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 238466
PV UUID CAueGx-Glzx-zCd0-H00m-R8d5-KTRc-9Ff7ay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/mapper/sda3_crypt
VG Name mint-vg
PV Size 118.50 GiB / not usable 0
Allocatable yes
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 30336
Free PE 10
Allocated PE 30326
PV UUID UJJfu8-S2Ac-pEZl-PlPa-uUzJ-axEs-ckbDWG
My backup shows
# Generated by LVM2 version 2.02.98(2) (2012-10-15): Thu Aug 13 20:45:52 2015
contents = "Text Format Volume Group"
version = 1
description = "Created *before* executing '/sbin/lvreduce --config log{command_names=0} -f -l 217600 /dev/Storage/Storage'"
creation_host = "desktop" # Linux desktop 3.19.0-25-generic #26~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 21:16:20 UTC 2015 x86_64
creation_time = 1439523952 # Thu Aug 13 20:45:52 2015
Storage {
id = "lM3S9T-inH1-mKsq-5doN-H8hT-zO3F-LF9jDx"
seqno = 2
format = "lvm2" # informational
status = ["RESIZEABLE", "READ", "WRITE"]
flags = []
extent_size = 8192 # 4 Megabytes
max_lv = 256
max_pv = 256
metadata_copies = 0
physical_volumes {
pv0 {
id = "nH1Axo-5nBo-WcyA-Xc4E-KwRt-K0Ib-ScK8Ch"
device = "/dev/mapper/Storage" # Hint only
status = ["ALLOCATABLE"]
flags = []
dev_size = 1953520999 # 931.511 Gigabytes
pe_start = 2048
pe_count = 238466 # 931.508 Gigabytes
}
}
logical_volumes {
Storage {
id = "Qb01kz-y1RG-PVQp-cGjB-sj77-xgnJ-w9kn3n"
status = ["READ", "WRITE", "VISIBLE"]
flags = []
creation_host = "desktop"
creation_time = 1436247513 # 2015-07-06 22:38:33 -0700
segment_count = 1
segment1 {
start_extent = 0
extent_count = 238466 # 931.508 Gigabytes
type = "striped"
stripe_count = 1 # linear
stripes = [
"pv0", 0
]
}
}
}
}
extundeleteto pull any residual backup data I had from previous backups off of other drives but the last time I actually made a backup was months ago so my drives are coming up empty. The data's probably already been overwritten on them. As far as that drive is concerned I can't seem to restore my partition.testdiskwon't find it. I'm halfway inclined to make a backup of my disk and just go back to using it until I can figure it out on the backup but I don't really have a drive big enough to handle a backup.