From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261667AbTJ2Us5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:48:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261680AbTJ2Us5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:48:57 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:3526 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261667AbTJ2Usz (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:48:55 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: Possible to recover this Raid 5 Array? Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:48:53 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20031029193646.GA18778@matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S5AEVx/v04/DO5yAB8g3N4yX5Mc= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Fedyk writes: > Now I have the two good drives put together in a degraded array, and luckily > I'm able to mount the beast, and am able to read a surprising amount of data > (it takes a long time to fully fsck 300GB, so it wasn't able to get to the > entire filesystem with the old disk in the array before I canceled it) > > The array was about 10% full when this happened. > > I'm checking what I can recover, but my home directory was on there, and I > only had partial backups. I have restored what was in the backups, but a > lot of files I hoped were backed up weren't. > > Is there some miracle that can be performed on with this? I don't think so. In cases like this, the first thing to do is to make a copy of the damaged filesystem, and work on the copy. If you're lucky, a tool like e2retrieve might be able to salvage some more data than fsck (http://coredump.free.fr/linux/e2retrieve.php). -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se