From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F242DC2D0E4 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 04:42:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 863BB24682 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 04:42:08 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=bitfolk.com header.i=@bitfolk.com header.b="PM3749Zw" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727155AbgKQEmI (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Nov 2020 23:42:08 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:35980 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726812AbgKQEmH (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Nov 2020 23:42:07 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 912 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:42:07 PST Received: from mail.bitfolk.com (mail.bitfolk.com [IPv6:2001:ba8:1f1:f019::25]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4737C0613CF for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:42:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bitfolk.com; s=alpha; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=M02vxiB9cBkirTjF/hnpPz3yXmY0F3/FlZgeRofCJs0=; b=PM3749ZwhEi4RKEoWFQ/JGvMC0z7Gj2cunB6vcminwIB9gDuMLDlRLR/6G5z1Xtz8/Z6RnHYJb2NFz+FTMP6kU1635t6PZH+UQvSKYqxBK1HyPdZydUfh43xUxCZnguJDZ+ei7+StdGG9rABCY8PaBySTldQNgR0sDh9KU/hHpfloCxBa+2aQj+OwxnoQBwNksvwlAqN5OyH4iwLBgOqTTjb3KfrDyKYigOhVH8wCJpHPePepFRzsEmZKGEl4hD+9zSHbi6oDVc9TnJ0REvnR56XZzqZXMHw6vDy/AxAVlk54EfLYhgV41UgAv6i2zmb9bHtBm1klDCcBxmxt6T79w==; Received: from andy by mail.bitfolk.com with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kesZw-0001of-Ig for linux-raid@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 04:26:52 +0000 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 04:26:52 +0000 From: Andy Smith To: Linux-RAID Subject: Re: Information request Message-ID: <20201117042652.GU3103@bitfolk.com> Mail-Followup-To: Linux-RAID References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: id=BF15490B; url=http://strugglers.net/~andy/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://strugglers.net/wiki/User:Andy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: andy@strugglers.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on mail.bitfolk.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Hello, On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 08:43:12PM -0600, o1bigtenor wrote: > I managed to delete a file that would require a lot of hours to replace. […] > Looking for suggestions on how to recover the file. This is really a filesystem question - files are not something that RAID concerns itself with. So, what filesystem and what type of file? You might get lucky running photorec (it's not just for images) on the block device while it's unmounted. https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step Cheers, Andy