From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "theelectricengineer@gmail.com" Subject: Re:Please help RAID1 complete fail no superblock Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:24:25 +0000 Message-ID: <856401.507833169-sendEmail@optimum> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----MIME delimiter for sendEmail-458818.844360398" Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-raid.ids This is a multi-part message in MIME format. To properly display this message you need a MIME-Version 1.0 compliant Email program. ------MIME delimiter for sendEmail-458818.844360398 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >On 22/11/16 14:49, George Rapp wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:31 AM, theelectricengineer@gmail.com >> wrote: >>> Hello good people of the linux-raid group, >>> >>> I really need your help with my RAID1 that has completely failed, on which I have photos of my beloved deceased grandparents. >>> >>> I had the RAID1 array for about 3 years, and I had replaced one of the drives when it failed about one year ago. All worked fine. >>> >>> A few weeks ago, I bought a new computer and wanted to move the array to the new computer. >>> I read several guides, and thought that all I had to do was turn both computers off, move the drives, and in the new computer execute: mdadm --assemble --scan >>> which I did. >>> >>> The output was: mdadm: /dev/sdb has no superblock - assembly aborted >>> >>> I panicked, moved the drives back, but the old RAID wouldn't start! >>> The old computer too says that one of the drives has no superblock >>> and, even worse, that the other is UNALLOCATED SPACE!!! >>> >>> I don't understand why the partition on the second drive disappeared, and I'm so worried. >>> >>> PLEASE, PLEASE help me... >>> >>> I read the wiki pages (raid wiki kernel), but I'm afraid to run any commands that might make things worse. >>> >>> I would be very happy if I could restore the data from either one of the drives, >>> and copy it to the new drives in my new computer (as I should have done before moving the drives). >>> >> >> Yaniv - >> >> One more piece of information that would be helpful is the partition >> tables for each drive: >> >> # fdisk -l /dev/sdb /dev/sdc >> > > And search the archive for the following thread - "RAID10 with 2 drives > auto-assembled as RAID1". It's pretty recent. > > You've got a mirror, which means both of your drives should have a valid > filesystem on them, so things look optimistic. It's just a case of > finding it - that thread should help you look. The experts will chime > in, but if you can find the string sequences they're looking for, it'll > help you recover the partition(s). What filesystem were you using? > > Cheers, > Wol Thank you both for the quick response, Attached are the outputs of fdisk -l for both drives. I read the correspondence in the archived email thread "RAID10 with 2 drives auto-assembled as RAID1", but I don't understand what I should do. Could you please guide me? I'm afraid to execute any unfamiliar commands that might lower my chances of saving my data. Thank you so much! 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