Hi all, Somehow I managed to mess with a RAID array containing an ext3 partition. Parenthesis, if it matters: I disconnected physically a drive while the array was online. Next thing, I lost the right order of the drives in the array. While trying to re-create it, I overwrote the raid superblocks. Luckily, the array was RAID5 degraded, so whenever I re-created it, it didn't go into sync; thus, everything besides the RAID superblocks is preserved (or so I think). Now, I am trying to re-create the array in the proper order. It takes me countless attempts, through hundreds of permutations. I am doing it programatically, but I don't think I have the right tool. Now, after creating the array and mounting it with mount -t ext3 -n -r /dev/md2 /media/olddepot I issue an: e2fsck -n -f /media/olddepot However, I cycled through all the permutations without apparent success. I.e., in all combinations it just refused to check it, saying something about "short read" and, of course, about invalid file systems. Does anybody know a better tool to check whether the mounted partition is a slightly damaged ext3 file system? I am thinking about dumping ext3 superblocks, but I don't know how that works. Thanks. (I am on the latest openSuSE, 11.2, with the latest mdadm available.) _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
