Robin, Thanks for the reply.
The rebuilt array, MD0, df shows only 1% used. These disks are not included in LVM. Bob Karge On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Robin Laing <[email protected]>wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:26:57 -0500, >> Robert Karge <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Any help would be very much appreciated. I have reloaded F10 (on the >>> boot >>> drive) but both drives from the original Raid 1 still appear to be >>> totally >>> empty. >>> >>> It is paradoxical how much the total loss of years of work and data >>> teaches >>> about better backup functionality. >>> >> >> It is unlikely that you have really lost all of the data based on what you >> said you did. You do want to be careful about what you do now so that you >> don't make things worse while trying to fix things. >> The rescue disk suggestion is probably the way to start. >> If you are going to try to do something dangerous, you may want to >> consider >> pulling one of the disks. This has its own set of risks though and you >> would >> want to make sure if you got things back, that you back stuff up before >> trying to add the disk back into the raid array. >> >> > I will agree with this. statement. > > With a 500GB drive, I would use this as a work disk. I would do an install > that doesn't look at the RAID drives. I would actually disconnect them. > > Now you said that you rebuilt the RAID. After to did a rebuild, did you > have the same LVM settings? I ask this because I had a real nightmare with > LVM and a RAID 1 some time ago. I refuse to use LVM now. > > How much data is on the rebuilt array? What does df give you? > > If worse comes to worse, you can use forensic tools to scan your drives for > data. I had to do this with my problem. I put the one drive into a USB > port and mounted it read only to scan the drive. > > The worse thing you can do is panic and rush. It took me almost a week to > recover some data after I forgot to back it up when I did a full system > redesign and rebuild. > > Good luck. > > -- > Robin Laing > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines >
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