On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: > Am 17.01.2011 20:15, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: >> When switched to display sector units it is only a matter of counting >> to find the partition in question I would guess... > > Errm, yes, I thought of this as well, as always *after* posting to the ML. > > > # fdisk -l -u /dev/sdb > > [..] > > /dev/sdb4 39889395 1953520064 956815335 5 Extended > /dev/sdb5 39889458 1717621604 838866073+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/sdb6 1717621668 1953520064 117949198+ fd Linux raid > autodetect > > So sector 1835240116 should be part of sdb6, right? > > So my hopes are high to be able to cp all the sdb5-content while the hdd > is still alive (yes, I have backups, but not up to the latest ...) > > Thanks, Stefan > >
It appears that the partition is part of a RAID? Has the RAID itself protected you? Can you fail the drive, remove it, from the RAID, buy a new drive and get going again? I think any RAID other than RAID0 will withstand a single drive failure. right? Once you had the RAID fixed you could deal with the other partitions on what appears to be a failing drive. No fun... - Mark
