Hello
I was trying to claim the unallocated space for my Fedora partition (btrfs), but it was on the left so I had to move the installation to the left
I booted to a Live usb fedora
Opened the KDE Partition Manager
And moved the Fedora partition to the left, and clicked apply
It was like 80% done and then an error popped up
After rebooting to live usb, now in KDE Partition Manager the filesystem shows up as “Unknown”
The partition is 580GiB big
Earlier it started at about ~350GiB
I moved it to ~2.5GiB
About 370/580GiB was used
There aren’t any super important files there and I won’t really lose anything, but I’d really prefer it if I was able to recover and not have to reinstall every single app again, and setup everything in settings again, and all that stuff
Is there a way to do it, or is the partition completely gone and unrecoverable?
Thanks in advance
Intensive operations like this can push a storage device that was near failure over the edge. You should run a S.M.A.R.T long test to be sure the error wasn’t due to a hardware failure. With btrfs it is generally better to just format free space as btrfs and then add it to the existing partition.
But the other partitions from the drive still work just fine from what I can tell
They are recognized normally and work just fine
The drive is an NVME M.2 PCIE SSD and it’s not even 2 years old
And I’m pretty sure if I try to reinstall the system on the drive it will work just fine
I’m just wondering if there is any way I can recover it without reinstalling the entire system, which would also mean reconfiguring the entire Plasma KDE desktop, each panel, each widget, reinstalling each app