From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bhatia Amit Subject: Re: Cannot start array on disk Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:47:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <330476394.3563695.1469314042611.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1124605843.526681.1468785592654.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1124605843.526681.1468785592654.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <73583e52-ca6b-b043-cbae-02c8a122be24@turmel.org> <1436537429.1672198.1468980612541.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <1537154003.1687848.1468983169996.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <6b958d9f-ec61-3b87-fcd7-ff63c0af32fe@turmel.org> <1334935791.2305089.1469066429563.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <48687c4e-792c-7cdc-7374-3020964f1892@turmel.org> <1152956900.3399623.1469246417006.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <578225037.3489302.1469312496573.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: Bhatia Amit Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Turmel , "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-raid.ids > The old and new data are completely different filesystems, I believe. > And I suspect the folder data for the latter half of the disk is in the > (missing) first half of the disk. Certainly the root folder. If > r-linux can recover file contents, that's better than I've got. I doubt > you have any folder data for the new < half disk. > > > In an earlier email, you had suggested possibly running fsck on sdc4 > > partition. Is that something I should be considering? > > No, I don't believe it can handle anything like this. You might want to > share this thread with the ext4 list. Hi Phil I think I understand the issue you are describing here. Also, I will share this thread with the ext4 list to get their suggestion. Thanks for the all help. Amit