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This was all in an external hard disk.

This was the scenario: I had 900GB of unallocated space and a 20GB ext4 partition. I used gparted to extend the etx4 partition across the entire disk.

After this, since there was some kind of warning in gparted (an exclamation icon beside the partition name) I clicked on repair. It started and said completed successfully.

On mounting the disk now the GUI shows no folders.

Also, du -h gives the following:

4.0K    /media/user/61d564a3-1af1-460f-8508-f037b8088c1a/lost+found
8.0K    /media/user/61d564a3-1af1-460f-8508-f037b8088c1a

df -h

/dev/sdb2       917G   72M  871G   1% /media/user/61d564a3-1af1-460f-8508-f037b8088c1a

Have I lost the data? If yes, it has to be the rescue operation, right?

Edit: In Gparted it says used is 14.76 GB so the data might still just be there.

Legolas
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    Is the data important? If so, do not use this disk for _anything_ until you've figured out how to recover it. Using the disk risks loosing the data, which currently does still exist on the disk. – djsmiley2kStaysInside Jun 09 '19 at 18:01
  • `since there was some kind of warning in gparted (an exclamation icon beside the partition name) I clicked on repair` -- Did it say what the warning was exactly? In general it should have bothered you. Did you extend to the right? to the left? Knowing the warning and/or other details (the log from `gparted`?) may help us help you. Even now I expect you to be able to get (some) files back with `testdisk` (see [this](https://superuser.com/a/987169/432690)) or similar tool; or maybe the old filesystem at once? (possibly partially broken). But this is very generic advice. – Kamil Maciorowski Jun 10 '19 at 06:41
  • I don't remember the warning. I extended it to the left, just dragged it all the way to the left end. – Legolas Jun 10 '19 at 21:37

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