From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Klauer Subject: Re: restore 3disk raid5 after raidpartitions have been setup with xfs filesystem by accident Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 22:56:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20160921205615.GC6949@metamorpher.de> References: <20160921171511.GA6381@metamorpher.de> <20160921180318.GA6633@metamorpher.de> <20160921190035.GA6949@metamorpher.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Simon Becks Cc: Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:41:32PM +0200, Simon Becks wrote: > So the filesystem on the raid is/was XFS. gave xfs_repair a shot but > it segfaults: > > i guess thats good, that it found at least the superblock? Although I use XFS myself I'm not too familiar with its repair facilities. If you're *sure* the RAID is set up correctly - in this case photorec should be able to find something larger than 512K*3 that is valid - and still have XFS repair issues maybe the XFS list can help there. Regards Andreas Klauer