Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-05 Thread Jeff Sadino
, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Timo Schoeler Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 8:15 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-05 Thread John R Pierce
Jeff Sadino wrote: I have access to all of the HEX data on each drive, and I now which sector each stripe starts at. Is there any way that I can reconstruct my data from that? When a file gets split up in RAID0, does the controller use the same sectors on each stripe to write the file

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-05 Thread Jeff Sadino
Thank you John. The thing is my data was not overwritten, corrupted, etc. Some was, but I know which parts. Basically, I just cleared the file system designation. So if a file is 64K, does the first 32K on drive 1 contain the first half of the file and the first 32K on drive 2 contain the

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Jeff Sadino jsadino.que...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you John. The thing is my data was not overwritten, corrupted, etc. Some was, but I know which parts. Basically, I just cleared the file system designation. So if a file is 64K, does the first 32K on

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:36 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Jeff Sadino jsadino.que...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you John. The thing is my data was not overwritten, corrupted, etc. Some was, but I know which parts. Basically, I just cleared the

[CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Jeff Sadino
Hello Everyone, First time CentOS poster :) I have CentOS 4 installed on the head node of a Sun Gridengine cluster set up in a RAID. The head node has four hard drives, and I assume that drives 1 and 2 are in a raid and then drives 3 and 4 are in another raid. I was trying to expand the OS

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread John R Pierce
Jeff Sadino wrote: Hello Everyone, First time CentOS poster :) I have CentOS 4 installed on the head node of a Sun Gridengine cluster set up in a RAID. The head node has four hard drives, and I assume that drives 1 and 2 are in a raid and then drives 3 and 4 are in another raid. I was

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Jeff Sadino
Do you think I can copy the unknown partition from the second drive onto the first drive and have everything work again? On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:01 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Jeff Sadino wrote: Hello Everyone, First time CentOS poster :) I have CentOS 4 installed on

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread John R Pierce
Jeff Sadino wrote: Do you think I can copy the unknown partition from the second drive onto the first drive and have everything work again? if there's a md mirror, god knows what will happen when you boot it up with both drives present, it oculd decide to mirror the unformatted partition to

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Christopher Chan
raiddev /dev/md1 raid-level 0 nr-raid-disks 2 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 4 device /dev/sda4 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb2 raid-disk 1 It says it can bring up md0 ok,

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:09 AM, John R Pierce wrote: Jeff Sadino wrote: Do you think I can copy the unknown partition from the second drive onto the first drive and have everything work again? if there's a md mirror, god knows what will happen when you boot it up with both drives

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Jeff Sadino
Thanks for the insight. Is there any way to bring it back to life not necessarily as a raid, but just back up so I can get to the data and have my license managers working? What if I edit md1 out of the raidtab file? Thanks, Jeff On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Christopher Chan

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Jeff Sadino wrote: Thanks for the insight. Is there any way to bring it back to life not necessarily as a raid, but just back up so I can get to the data and have my license managers working? What if I edit md1 out of the raidtab file? The data on a raid0 stripes across both drives as

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Jeff Sadino
Ok, I'm learning a lot about raids and what to do, and what not to do. Looking at some info I had before, md1 was 200GB in size, which makes sense, but it was only 39GB full. The way I repartitioned drive 1, I probably overwrote only about 11GB. Does that make it any easier to recover any amount

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread nate
Jeff Sadino wrote: Ok, I'm learning a lot about raids and what to do, and what not to do. Looking at some info I had before, md1 was 200GB in size, which makes sense, but it was only 39GB full. The way I repartitioned drive 1, I probably overwrote only about 11GB. Does that make it any

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, March 04, 2010 11:33 AM, nate wrote: Jeff Sadino wrote: Ok, I'm learning a lot about raids and what to do, and what not to do. Looking at some info I had before, md1 was 200GB in size, which makes sense, but it was only 39GB full. The way I repartitioned drive 1, I probably

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 3, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Jeff Sadino jsadino.que...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I'm learning a lot about raids and what to do, and what not to do. Looking at some info I had before, md1 was 200GB in size, which makes sense, but it was only 39GB full. The way I repartitioned drive 1, I

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Jeff Sadino
Backups? I wish :) I will now. But looking closer, that md1 is not my OS partition, just a data partition. If I take that md1 entry out of the raidtab file and restart the computer, I would think that it would start up just fine, minus the data partition (and for the moment neglecting any vital

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, March 04, 2010 01:15 PM, Jeff Sadino wrote: Backups? I wish :) I will now. /me hands Jeff a big clueby4 to use on the former admin. But looking closer, that md1 is not my OS partition, just a data partition. If I take that md1 entry out of the raidtab file and restart the

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Jeff Sadino wrote: Backups? I wish :) I will now. But looking closer, that md1 is not my OS partition, just a data partition. If I take that md1 entry out of the raidtab file and restart the computer, I would think that it would start up just fine, minus the data partition (and for the

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Sorin Srbu
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Sadino Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 6:15 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID Backups?  I wish :)  I will now. But looking closer, that md1 is not my OS partition, just a data partition

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Sorin Srbu spake: From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Sadino Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 6:15 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID Backups? I wish :) I

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Jeff Sadino
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 6:15 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID Backups? I wish :) I will now. But looking closer, that md1 is not my OS partition, just a data partition. If I take that md1 entry out of the raidtab file and restart the computer, I

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Timo Schoeler
timo.schoe...@riscworks.netwrote: thus Sorin Srbu spake: From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Sadino Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 6:15 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID Backups? I wish :) I will now. But looking

Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID

2010-03-03 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Timo Schoeler Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 8:15 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Recover RAID Backups? I wish :) I will now. [...] Eh? Raid0 with no backups? For real