I found the meta data. I ACTUALLY found it. thanks for the zeroing hint Phillip, I completely zeroed both disks, to be sure, as there was all sorts of stuff I didn't know. I narrowed it down and found it located on /dev/sda at sector 156297345.
After narrowing it down I ran : sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=outputfile skip=156297345 then : sudo hexdump -C outputfile > outputfile.txt I started by dumping the last 5 megabytes of disk space and looking at it in a hex editor, then just counting how many bytes it was to the data. with that I figured, well, 512 bytes a sector, so some easy math to the meta data. Then I double checked by comparing the 5mb output to the one I concluded with. I don't know if I should, but heres the hex dump, probably formatted crazily: 00000000 24 4d 41 47 4e 49 41 24 1f 31 15 0f 00 00 00 00 |$MAGNIA$.1......| 00000010 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 00000020 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................| * 00000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 00000070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 09 |................| 00000080 24 4c 6f 67 69 63 61 6c 1f 31 15 0f 1f 31 15 0f |$Logical.1...1..| 00000090 1f 31 15 0f 02 02 01 01 02 02 00 00 00 00 05 17 |.1..............| 000000a0 00 e8 50 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 01 00 00 00 00 |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| 000000b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00000100 54 4f 53 48 49 42 41 20 4d 4b 38 30 33 32 47 53 |TOSHIBA MK8032GS| 00000110 58 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 |X | 00000120 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 20 20 20 20 20 20 | .. | 00000130 20 20 20 20 20 36 36 50 4f 34 37 39 33 53 00 00 | 66PO4793S..| 00000140 54 4f 53 48 49 42 41 20 4d 4b 38 30 33 32 47 53 |TOSHIBA MK8032GS| 00000150 58 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 |X | 00000160 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 20 20 20 20 20 20 | .. | 00000170 20 20 20 20 20 36 36 50 4f 34 37 39 30 53 00 00 | 66PO4790S..| 00000180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00205e00 Anyways, I'm uploading my results, the hex dump text file, the original output file, and a hex dump text file with a summary of this and my fdisk output. I'm gonna look at the dmraid source my self, but I doubt I can do that stuff. Thanks! -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
