Issues recovering corrupted XEN disk image
 

Well, the story is like this.
I tried to increase a XEN disk image, using dd and appending space to the end, then checking the filesystem and mk2fs.
This HAD data on it, some data that I`m desperately trying to recover.
Of course everything got screwed, and I`ve been trying for the past 4-5 days all sorts of recovery methods, but I think I`m doing something wrong.
Note this is a xen disk image, not a xen lv.

I tried using fdisk to find superblocks and recovering data off of it, but the boot partition is fine. The second partition is screwed and even though fsck shows :

[When mounting this, it only shows lost+found.
No files.

Nah, that doesn't matter. Because you made backups beforehand.


...nonetheless all is well that ends well, because you made a backup before you started this, right?


...which was all the more reason to, ahhh, make a backup?


That's cool! See, now you restore the backup you made. Easy peasy.


OK, what have you exactly tried? And whatever you did you tried on a copy of that disk and not the original, right? Because unless you're good there's a chance you have "repaired" things irreversibly wrong.


So what was the original disk layout? What did testdisk show?

// BTW WB after nearly two years...

And your role is here to help or make fun of people's issues ?
Because if it`s the latter, find another thread to play on.

So are you going to reply to those four questions I asked or what?

You already know what the answer to those questions is. His response told you.

I'm only interested in the last four.

I`ve went and recreated the image using LVM this time. I guess you learn more from trial & error.
unSpawn, yes, backups are important, but helping as well. The way you replied just made me sick of posting here again.