2008/12/3 Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. >
You can give 'missing' as a component device name along with /dev/sdc5 if mdadm gives a 'not enough devices' type error. 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
