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My problem is the following:

I have a 1TB HDD with the information of a server that I need now.

I do not know what to do to access the information, inside the HDD there is a vmfs formatted partition that I do not see, and it contains the data I need.

I think the problem is in the final limit of partition number 3, but as I say, I do not know what the problem is.

I appreciate any help.

fdisk -l fdisk -l

gdisk -l /dev/sdb gdisk -l /dev/sdb

Info partition gdisk Info partition gdisk

Info partition 1 - 5

Info partition 6 - 8

Michael Hampton
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Yeison Iguaran
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  • Your 1 TB drive has a partition claiming to be 2 TB in size. Something went very wrong before today. It is possible that your data is lost. Consider going to your backups. – Michael Hampton Dec 19 '18 at 20:39

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vmfs filesystem is vmware filesytem. It seems that you need to install a vmfs tool to read vmfs from ubuntu, then mount the partition on your ubuntu.

download the package: sudo apt install vmfs-tools (or apt-get install vmfs-tools on older versions)

create the folder where to mount the fs:

sudo mkdir /mnt/vmfs

mount the fs:

vmfs-fuse /dev/sdb3 mnt/vmfs

you can use lsblk to verify it's sdb3.

edit: I didn't test it so it may need something else, but it may help to copy and save the data elsewhere.

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  • Thanks, but that did not work. That worked for me on another HDD that had a vmfs partition, but this disk does not have a partition with this format. **Result** [Result](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qHhpp.png) – Yeison Iguaran Dec 19 '18 at 18:40