From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tyler J. Wagner" Subject: Re: how to recover filesystem after clobbering array? Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:43:45 +0100 Message-ID: <4E255FE1.2060006@tolaris.com> References: <20110719104325.16112cl7f4lrzkjh@mail.sapo.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: David Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 2011-07-19 11:17, David Brown wrote: > Once you have got image files for each of your disks, make copies of > these image files to another spare disk. Keep careful notes of exactl= y > what you have done here, and which files are which. And put your > original disks, carefully labelled, on a shelf somewhere. > > Now you are in a position to attempt data recovery on your copied > files. If you do something wrong, you can simply re-copy the image > files and try again. You still have absolutely no guarantees that > you'll get anything back - but at least you can be sure you are not > going to make anything worse. =46ollow David's advice. What was the filesystem on the array? Now, use testdisk, photorec, and foremost to seek through the raw image= s and extract files. The good news is, most video formats are detectable by these tools. All can be installed with your package manager. Regards, Tyler --=20 "Offending fundamentalists isn't my goal =E2=80=93 but if it is an inev= itable side-effect of defending human rights, so be it." -- Johann Hari -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html