I was editing my disk and when i wrote the changes and exited cfdisk
, no cli command worked. Thats when i realized that im f-ed up.
This what happened:
I have 3 partitions, 512M efi, a 100G root partition and some free (unallocated) space. I had 84G worth data in the root patition. I totally forgot that and shrinked the root partition to 32G to extend the free space. I was using cfdisk
tool for this. I wrote the changes and rebooted my machine, by long pressing power button coz no cli commands worked after writing those chrnges, to see this.
So is it possible to recover my machine now?
:_ )
SOLUTION
Thanks to @dgriffith@aussie.zone.
cfdisk
just updates the partition table. So no worry about data damage . To fix this, live boot -> resize the partition back its original size -> fsck
that partition. For more explanation, refer @dgriffith@aussie.zone comment
Live boot and fsck