From: Mitchell Laks <mlaks@verizon.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid1: All my data completely vanished into the void
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:30:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200512280030.51387.mlaks@verizon.net> (raw)
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 11:50 pm,
Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> Are you 100% sure that you didn't do:
>
> mdadm -Cv -n2 -l1 /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb, etc, etc?
> (ie, note lack of subdevice for partition!!!)
> It sounds like you created md devices out of whole disks instead of
> partitions and overwrote the partition information. I don't *think*
> this should be a problem, but I don't 100% know...
>
> Try this to see if it finds your array:
>
> mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb
That works! In fact that does indeed find all the data! I then mount it as
/home/big2 and the data is still there that I left before.
You are a genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What an idiot I am.
What does doing
mdadm -Cv -n2 -l1 /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb
do to the partition tables???
(And why can I still access the data if I messed up the partitions??? very
odd).
Can you point me at an explanation of the effects of what I did?
Every way a person can screw up, it will happen...
Mitcehll
next reply other threads:[~2005-12-28 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-28 5:30 Mitchell Laks [this message]
2005-12-28 5:59 ` raid1: All my data completely vanished into the void Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-12-28 6:44 ` Daniel Pittman
2005-12-28 8:23 ` Max Waterman
2005-12-28 10:34 ` Daniel Pittman
2005-12-28 21:52 ` Mark Hahn
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-28 4:40 Mitchell Laks
2005-12-28 4:33 ` Mike Hardy
2005-12-28 5:17 ` Mitchell Laks
2005-12-28 4:50 ` Ross Vandegrift
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