Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: Possible to recover this Raid 5 Array? | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:48:53 +0100 |
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Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:
> Now I have the two good drives put together in a degraded array, and luckily > I'm able to mount the beast, and am able to read a surprising amount of data > (it takes a long time to fully fsck 300GB, so it wasn't able to get to the > entire filesystem with the old disk in the array before I canceled it) > > The array was about 10% full when this happened. > > I'm checking what I can recover, but my home directory was on there, and I > only had partial backups. I have restored what was in the backups, but a > lot of files I hoped were backed up weren't. > > Is there some miracle that can be performed on with this?
I don't think so. In cases like this, the first thing to do is to make a copy of the damaged filesystem, and work on the copy. If you're lucky, a tool like e2retrieve might be able to salvage some more data than fsck (http://coredump.free.fr/linux/e2retrieve.php).
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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