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Guys, I managed to recover my partitions. I used test disk to write the detected efi partition which was of 500MiB. The gpt partition table backup uses 33 sectors to I created second partition starting from where the previous ended to totalsectors-33. I was able to luksDump the header after this and successfully decrypt and mount my device. I had to grub-install and now my system is up and running. Thank you so much everyone for their help and their kind words.

Nuked my system [recovered] in c/linux@lemmy.world

[–] lemmylemonade@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

I did test disk on the drive and recoverd my boot partition. Seems like the data hasn't been touched. The problem now is recovering the luks header. As my root partiton was encrypted with luks.

Nuked my system [recovered] in c/linux@lemmy.world

[–] lemmylemonade@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I've recovered my boot partition but my other partition was formatted with luks. The boot partition is working and not throwing any errors. How can I restore the luksheader? Is it even possible?

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Nuked my system [recovered] (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by lemmylemonade@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.world

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Edit: I was able to recover my partitions by creating new partition starting and ending with same exact sectors.

I was copying files from my previous installation to my new Gentoo installation. After I was done. I ran wipefs on /dev/nvme0n1 thinking it is my old nvme drive which is connected through usb. I am in disbelief. Lost all of my configuration files. My perfect installation of gentoo. Just gone. How do I never make such mistake again? Thankfully I had backup of passwords file. Rest is gone. I am sad.