ok then . . . copying my backup back to a disk . . . this is a 26 hour
evolution - back in a couple days :)
Regards,
George Toft
On 2/4/2014 6:04 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
Looks like under knoppix it's not finding the disks you seek in at
least the right order, or all the partitions you're expecting:
On 02/04/2014 11:00 AM, George Toft wrote:
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
/dev/sda1 * 1 64 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 64 77826 624618496 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdb: 3000.6 GB, 3000591900160 bytes
/dev/sdb1 1 267350 2147483647+ ee GPT
Disk /dev/sdc: 3000.6 GB, 3000591900160 bytes
/dev/sdc1 1 267350 2147483647+ ee GPT
[root@localhost ~]#
It's not finding the partitions for the data, or the disk as you're
trying to use parted to print or manipulate the data with mdraid.
[root@localhost ~]# mdadm --assemble --scan
mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically
#
## it's not finding partition type fd for linux auto raid to start
automagically
[root@localhost ~]# mdadm --create /dev/md0 -n2 -l1 /dev/sdb3 missing
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdb3: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]# mdadm --create /dev/md0 -n2 -l1 /dev/sdc3 missing
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdc3: No such file or directory
#
## none of these are present per above
[root@localhost ~]# mdadm --create /dev/md0 -n2 -l1 /dev/sdb1 missing
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdb1: No such file or directory
#
## this looks like you made the disk disappear from above, confirm
with the lsblk what is there at the moment...
[root@localhost ~]# mdadm --create /dev/md0 -n2 -l1 /dev/sdc1 missing
mdadm: /dev/sdc1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
size=204800K mtime=Sun Dec 29 10:32:43 2013
mdadm: Note: this array has metadata at the start and
may not be suitable as a boot device. If you plan to
store '/boot' on this device please ensure that
your boot-loader understands md/v1.x metadata, or use
--metadata=0.90
Continue creating array? y
mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
#
## hmm, you just initialized that with a superblock for mdraid,
probably nuking your ext2 boot partition here...
[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/md0 /mnt/raid
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
[root@localhost ~]# mount -t ext4 /dev/md0 /mnt/raid
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
#
## you haven't created a file system on this mdraid volume at sdc1,
use mkfs.ext4 for this on /dev/md0 first, as it needs a fs of some
flavour...
It seems like I may be able to mount /dev/sdc3 if I can correct the size.
Thoughts?
#
## unfortunately it looks like you might have nuked the data, or it
was nuked with the reboot originally on that disk as the partition is
still simply not showing up on it, now neither side of the disk seems
present. If it doesn't see partition 3 in any kind of block/partition
descriptor, it simply isn't there...
Really, you need to be super-careful with these as depending on the
kernel or setup of udev, it tends to probe these out of order between
boots. You always want to either validate it by it's UUID (using "ls
-la /dev/disk/by-uuid/), or verifying with hdparm -i as well the
devices for which disk is what. The metadata version mdraid is using
is relevant as old versions are not forward compatible, and depending
on dist they may not be able to interpret what you have/had. Fact
it's creating them at 1.2 metadata descriptors for the superblock, it
*should* be able to read the old .90 or .92 blocks, but I'm almost
thinking the disk is either damaged, or somewhere along these
adventures you inadvertently nuked the partitions.
If you're not seeing the raided partition anymore, it's gone, but I
think your bigger issue is the old sdb disk is toast beyond just the
partitions.
-mb
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