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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) 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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