Re: I just trashed my RAID5 array - recovery possible?

[Ross Vandegrift <ross@willow.seitz.com>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:22:27PM +0100, Wolfram Schlich wrote:
> I've put up the logfile of fsck at
> http://wolfram.schlich.org/tmp/fsck.log.1
> I have no idea whether this is an "uncomfortable large amount of
> damage", so would you mind having a look at it? :-) TIA!

That's a pretty huge amount of damage.  If fsck is able to fix it
without trashing data, then it doesn't matter.  I missed how big your
array was, but if you have the resources to make an image of the raw
devices, I'd definately reccomend you do so:

# cat /dev/hdx > /some/path/with/lots/of/space/hdx.img

This will let you restore your disks and try again.  At any rate, good
luck with the data.

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Ross Vandegrift
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