estr4ng3d <e5tr4ng3d@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I got some of my RAID5 array volumes damaged. I have no idea what happened, I > was simply trying to manually assemble them after a reboot, only to discover > they are no longer recognized by mdadm as containing a superblock. > > What's interesting and really weird (to my humble knowledge at least) is > that hexdumps show interesting patterns. http://pastebin.com/m494e69c0 > Obviously far from being random garbage (hence I'm ruling out media damage). > Does RAID create this sort of data sequences as part of its operation? Could > this have been deliberate overwriting of my volumes? > > I'm desperately trying to recover data on this array. Any help/pointers > appreciated! > > Thanks Looks more like you formated /dev/sda with ext2 instead of /dev/md0. MfG Goswin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
