I accidentally reformatted /dev/disk2
(when I wanted to do it for /dev/disk5
...)
Users-MacBook-Pro-3:~ user$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 500.0 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +500.0 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume APPLE SSD AP0512M Media 381.2 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume PreBoot 18.4 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 521.4 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 4.3 GB disk1s4
5: APFS Volume Programming 74.0 GB disk1s5
6: APFS Volume P2 33.4 GB disk1s6
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *6.0 TB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS B14P1 499.9 GB disk2s2
3: Apple_HFS B14P2 499.9 GB disk2s3
4: Apple_HFS B14P3 499.9 GB disk2s4
5: Apple_HFS B14P4 499.9 GB disk2s5
6: Apple_HFS B14P5 499.9 GB disk2s6
7: Apple_HFS B14P6 499.9 GB disk2s7
8: Apple_HFS B14P7 499.9 GB disk2s8
9: Apple_HFS B14P8 499.9 GB disk2s9
10: Apple_HFS B14P9 499.9 GB disk2s10
11: Apple_HFS B14P10 499.9 GB disk2s11
12: Apple_HFS B14P11 499.9 GB disk2s12
13: Apple_HFS B14P12 500.8 GB disk2s13
/dev/disk5 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *6.0 TB disk5
1: Microsoft Basic Data Elements 6.0 TB disk5s1
Users-MacBook-Pro-3:~ user$ diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk2 GPT JHFSX FTP9 6T
Started partitioning on disk2
Unmounting disk
Creating the partition map
Waiting for partitions to activate
Formatting disk2s2 as Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) with name FTP9
Initialized /dev/rdisk2s2 as a 5 TB case-sensitive HFS Plus volume with a 458752k journal
Mounting disk
Finished partitioning on disk2
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *6.0 TB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS FTP9 6.0 TB disk2s2
Is there anything i can do to undo this? I have lots of precious data in there ;(;(
I have not done anything else on the disk / partition so far. I have Disk Drill, but instead of scanning, is there any way to easily recover the original partitions and data back?
This is similar case to Recover partitions after ‘diskutil partitionDisk’ command, but in that post, there was not really an answer, and the commands I have used are slightly different.
I am using mac10.13.6 on A1990 macbook.