Recovering XFS Partition of Type FAT16

Volkan YAZICI
2011-07-04T10:23:57Z

Hi,

I have an XFS partition, which is

1) Mistakenly quick formatted as FAT16.
2) At first, I couldn't see in "fdisk -l" that it is set to FAT16,
instead of Linux. Hence, tried to fix it with xfs_recover. xfs_recover
returned 0, and mount operation succeeded; but mounted fs size
appeared as 20GB (despite it is 350GB) and almost every file was
missing.
3) Later, I set the type of /dev/sda1 (the only partition in /dev/sda)
to Linux, re-run xfs_recover, but nothing changed: Same fs size (20GB)
and same missing files.

I open the system with Knoppix, and below are the partition
diagnostics. I need urgent help to recover the files. I will be
really, really appreciated for any help! (If you need further
information, just drop me a mail.)

Best.

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x447c435f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 38913 312568641 83 Linux

# mount | grep /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1 on /media/sda1 type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,noquota)

# df -h | grep /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1 19G 4,2G 15G 23% /media/sda1

# xfs_info /mnt/sda1
meta-data=/dev/sda1 isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=1226963 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=2
data = bsize=4096 blocks=4907849, imaxpct=25
= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks
naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0
log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=2560, version=2
= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0