On 06/21/2011 11:34 PM, william L'Heureux wrote: > > /dev/sdj1 cant be first, its /dev/sda1. 'j' had the lvm metadata in the right spot. It was first. If it's not now, then your partial rebuild scrambled it. I don't think I have any more expertise to offer at this point. > My friend made a python script. take a look. > > cat rebuild.py [...] Nice to automate the search, especially with many combinations. > i can see the data with the combinatin below, but there is a lot of errors, sounds like a rebuild was started(beghining of the disk) then was canceled That hurts. > we made a snapshot, run a e2fsck on it and im still(not now, gotta sleep) add 1 missing or 2. after the e2fsck i mount the snap, look at the data, check corruption, rince and repeat with another combination of missing and not. i rate the ones with less corruption > > the only e2fsck working is with --->>> a,j,c,h,i,d Good luck. Phil -- 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