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Originally Posted by syg00
In future, use [code] tags - here's why:
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root@sysresccd /root % lsblk -f -o +size
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT SIZE
sda 931.5G
├─sda1 ext4 a1e05889-c8a7-4373-b54a-0a0dfd8a71e2 476M
├─sda2 1K
├─sda5 ext4 100f8716-048c-460e-abc9-913fa2d09c6c 14G
├─sda6 22.4G
└─sda7 838.2G
That doesn't look good - the encrypted partition should show as "crypto_LUKS" (under FSTYPE) according to my tests. If that header can't be recognised, you can't even start to open/mount it. I'd say your data is gone.
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Hi syg, does it make a difference if the drive wasn't encrypted? It is possible that my encryption idea came from a prior install. In short, I'm not 100% sure it was encrypted.
I still want to try and ddrescue the drive and try to recover data just in case it wasn't encrypted.
My current problem is that I'm getting errors when trying to partition a 4TB USB hard drive with gparted. It has a Microsoft reserved partition and when I was trying to resive the other partition it resulted in the following libparted error dialogue box:
"The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used."
Later on it hung up and spit out the following in an error file...
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GParted 0.25.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
Libparted 3.2
Shrink /dev/sda2 from 3.64 TiB to 4.88 GiB 00:00:11 ( ERROR )
calibrate /dev/sda2 00:00:11 ( SUCCESS )
path: /dev/sda2 (partition)
start: 264192
end: 7814035455
size: 7813771264 (3.64 TiB)
check file system on /dev/sda2 for errors and (if possible) fix them 00:00:00 ( ERROR )
ntfsresize -i -f -v /dev/sda2 00:00:00 ( ERROR )
ntfsresize v2015.3.14AR.1 (libntfs-3g)
ERROR(2): Failed to check '/dev/sda2' mount state: No such file or directory
Probably /etc/mtab is missing. It's too risky to continue. You might try
an another Linux distro.
libparted messages ( INFO )
The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.
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Do you have any advice as to how I can proceed with partitioning my 4TB USB ddrescue destination drive?
TIA...