Unsuccessfully resized NTFS partition using Gparted, now it has enlarged...

soup_sam

I tried to unmount the NTFS partition, it failed, so I umount -l /dev/sda5 and then tried resizing partition of ~200GB to 309.99GB. It resized in an instant, I was instructed to restart system by Gparted. It seems now the partition size was resized to 309.99GB, but the filesystem shows ~200GB with 108GB unallocated. I still can mount and access all files. These are my partitions I Check Partition on gparted, this is the error I get, GParted...

Originally asked by user1930693 on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Okay, so solution was to, run testdisk => Analyse => Select all required & correct Partitions and set as Primary/Logical => Rewrite partition table Once done, it's best to get a Windows based boot CD or have Windows (Installed or Boot). Boot into either. Then, run diskpart on command prompt => list volume to show drive letters. Exit diskpart or in a new cmd prompt, run chkdsk E: /R [Replace E: with drive letter]. You'll probably get all files back like me. If any of your files are missing after that, use testdisk to recover them. There are plenty of guides online on this. PS. If you think you have all files before starting this process, do a backup image as suggested by Andrea Lazzarotto

Full answer by user1930693: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/350187 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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