On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:31:04AM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > dd if=/tmp/tmpimage.png of=/dev/md0
Heh... I did something very similar the first time I tried to create a tarball. > Not smart, this was to write to my raid system. > Now when I do an ls I get something like: > > ls: lib: Input/output error Uh-huh. You overwrote the start of the filesystem (which typically includes things like the root directory) with your PNG. > I there a way I can recover any data? Run fsck on the partition and it will do its best to recover. Best case, your directory structure will be rebuilt and a lot of files will appear in lost+found, where you can examine and (hopefully) identify them. > Shouldn't it be redundant? Yes, and I'm sure it is. The redundancy in a RAID only protects against hardware failure, though, not user error. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss