Recover Lost Superblocks?

2008-07-21 Thread John Morgan Salomon
Hi there, bit of a tricky question: I have an Adaptec RAID-5 array which decided to puke recently -- the controller seems OK, as do the drives, but something appears to have gone wrong and I had to rebuild the array. Long story short, my array went astray and I lost partition and filesystem

Re: Recover Lost Superblocks?

2008-07-21 Thread Polytropon
Hi! On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:57:09 +0200 (CEST), John Morgan Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before you ask, this was the backup server. My primary box had decided to die shortly before. I had no backup backup server. Murphy strikes. I completely do understand you, I'm suffering from a

Re: Recover Lost Superblocks?

2008-07-21 Thread John Morgan Salomon
Wow, a sympathetic ear, was expecting far more scorn than that :-) I am currently running TestDisk, which at least _appears_ to be finding something filesystem-like (at least it's listed a few empty somethings that look somehow reasonable, size-wise.) Cross your fingers. Gpart and

Re: Recover Lost Superblocks?

2008-07-21 Thread John Morgan Salomon
OK, I have a followup question to this. After some mucking around, I've managed to lose my partition again (although the data is still there, I installed testdisk and let photorec run; it looks like it's finding pretty much everything.) Running newfs -N on /dev/aacd0 finds a ton of backup