2008/12/3 Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all > > I am trying to get data off someones old machine that died and place it onto > a new machine for them. The old machine had two Western Digital IDE drives > as RAID1. I have inserted one of the drives into a new machine in place of > the CDROM drive and connected it's IDE cable up and it shows up as /dev/sdc > > /dev/sdc > sdc1 > sdc2 > sdc3 > sdc5 > > Both of the drives show the same info above. By trying mount I can see that > partition 2 is the swap, 1 is probably a /boot and the data that I wish to > retrieve is on either or both of 3 or 5. See "Try to mount the Partitions" > below. > > I also used mdadm to get some detailed info on sdc5 (see below). > > My problem is that I can't work out how to mount sdc3 (have tried -t ext3, > -t reiserfs, -t auto) or sdc5. The latter is probably the one I want. I > gather the partition table says it 'mdraid' and I need to change that? > [snip]
Hey, Try starting the raid array with a missing member and then mounting the resulting md device. # mdadm --assemble --run --uuid b6035660:c11a8a2e:7026aea2:99d23bfc /dev/sdc5 # mount /dev/md1 /mnt N.B. I haven't checked the syntax, you may need to add /dev/md1 to the mdadm line.. I don't have a box in front of me to check... The general idea should be right though.. cheers, Owen. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
