From: seth vidal <skvidal@phy.duke.edu>
To: mwaterman@jingmei.org
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shuffled disks by mistake
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:40:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110465620.9276.15.camel@cutter> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <423056F1.2020403@fastmail.co.uk>
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 22:17 +0800, Max Waterman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 6 WD800Jb disk drives. I used 4 of them in a RAID5 (using the
> whole disk - no partitions) array.
>
> I have mixed them all up, and now want to get some data off the array.
>
> How best to find out which drives were in the array?
>
> Here are the partition tables (obtained using fdisk on OS X):
put the drives in a linux machine and run:
mdadm -E /dev/drive#
it should tell you if there is an md superblock on that system.
-sv
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-10 14:17 shuffled disks by mistake Max Waterman
2005-03-10 14:39 ` Paul Clements
2005-03-10 14:40 ` seth vidal [this message]
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