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Mm.. can someone help?

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?

:_ )

lurch ,

just restore the backup you made like reasonable people do

melroy ,
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What is a backup?

oo1 ,

Is it that wierd little box thing that you have to take out of your smoke alarm to stop it beeping?

melroy ,
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I hate smoke alarms, especially since I have Tinnitus. So indeed I throw those away.

Petter1 ,

I’d boot on ArchISO, get all data I need to a external drive and install Arch from scratch, btw

melroy ,
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Try Void Linux.

Petter1 ,

Why should I?

merthyr1831 ,

it's a great distro for installing Gentoo Linux btw

Petter1 ,

Oh, well I’m not quite interested in that right now, I have chosen Arch because I like the wiki and that you find so many packages in the AUR which are easy findable and installable using yay

melroy ,
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Understood. I'm also maintainer of several AUR packages.

Petter1 ,

🫡thank you for your service! I hope, one day I can do so myself as well

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