I have a raid6 array built with mdadm, 5 drives with a spare. it lost 2 drives, so I replaced them and the array rebuilt itself without much complaint. I believe the array contained an lvm pv (I didn't originally build it), but I can't seem to get it to detect now. on my other systems configured the same way, the first characters on the block device are "LABELONE LVM2" - not so on this broken system.
running strings on the broken volume returns what appear to be filenames: [jop61.gz [jop61.gz Ftof~.1.gz [ehzqp.1.gz Fwteh.1.gz Fwteh.1.gz utvame.1.gz utvame.1.gz so clearly there is _something_ there but I can't figure out how to tell what it is. # file -s /dev/md1 /dev/md1: sticky data any ideas on things to check or try? this is not a critical system so this is mostly an academic exercise. I would like to understand more about this area of system administration. thanks, -wes
