TL;DR: ext4-disk with ~250GB of data -> Partitions deleted using fdisk -> New partition created using mkfs.ext4 -> Need to get back all files as intact as possibleA few days ago I copied ~250Gb of data from one disk (NTFS) to another (ext4) using rsync. Now I wanted to check them again, and the only folder on the backup disk is lost.dir, nothing else is in there, although it should be full of files and folders. Unfortunately, I already formatted my original disk, so there is nothing on there as well.The reason, why I did not choose dd for backing the disk up is, that the original drive has got 512GB and the other one 1TB, and I did not want to copy the partition table of former disk to the latter one.Now, what could have happened? I used fdisk and mkfs.ext4 after copying the data. Although I looked at my bash history and I never used /dev/sdfX (which is the disk I want to recover), the only way I can explain this data loss is, that the same happened with my /dev/sdf: fdisk /dev/sdf -> remove all partitions -> create a new primary one filling the whole disk -> format that partition using mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdf1 (which is what I did with other disks after the copying).Attempts: I've already tried ddrescue, which gave me a disk image containing nothing but said lost.dir folder. Also, I ran a few tools like testdisk, foremost, etc. over it, but nothing really helped.No my question is: What can I do to get back my data, preferably without losing the directory structure?
Recover formatted partition
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