Re: broken raid level 5 array caused by user error

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On 11/09/2015 06:56 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Mathias Mueller wrote:
> 
>> Please help me, I know I'm stupid and don't deserve it. I really hope,
>> there is a chance for reovering the array.
> 
> It's possible. There are numerous threads in the mailing list archives
> with people who have been in the same situation as you are in now.
> Without having a backup of the original superblocks, you're going to
> have to guess offsets. It might make sense to investigate what the
> defaults were for the mdadm you originally created the array with.

Chunks size defaults have varied, too.

I would search the known first drive for an ext4 filesystem signature
and work backwards from there.  Show the output of this search:

dd if=/dev/sdd1 bs=1M count=1M |hexdump -C |grep '  53 ef ' |head -n 1000

Phil

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