{Resend with list address corrected -- ignore the duplicate, Mathias } Hi Matthias, On 11/09/2015 02:36 PM, Mathias Mueller wrote: >> for x in /dev/sd[b-e]1 ; do echo $x ; dd if=$x bs=4k count=2 |hexdump >> -C ; done > > /dev/sdb1 > 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| > * > 00000400 00 20 47 07 16 10 1c 1d 67 9a 74 01 8b 5d a6 1c |. G.....g.t..]..| > 00000410 f5 1f 47 07 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 |..G.............| > 00000420 00 80 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 |......... ......| > 00000430 d9 45 8b 4c 00 00 27 00 53 ef 01 00 01 00 00 00 |.E.L..'.S.......| > 00000440 2e 44 8b 4c 00 4e ed 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 |.D.L.N..........| > 00000450 00 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 3c 00 00 00 |............<...| False positive. (Not an ext4 signature). > /dev/sdc1 > 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| > * > 00000400 00 20 47 07 16 10 1c 1d 67 9a 74 01 8b 5d a6 1c |. G.....g.t..]..| > 00000410 f5 1f 47 07 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 |..G.............| > 00000420 00 80 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 |......... ......| > 00000430 d9 45 8b 4c 00 00 27 00 53 ef 01 00 01 00 00 00 |.E.L..'.S.......| > 00000440 2e 44 8b 4c 00 4e ed 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 |.D.L.N..........| Also a false positive. > /dev/sdd1 > 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| > * > 00000400 00 20 47 07 90 0e 1c 1d 54 9a 74 01 75 aa c1 08 |. G.....T.t.u...| > 00000410 35 47 33 07 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 |5G3.............| > 00000420 00 80 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 20 00 00 0b b2 ca 4d |......... .....M| > 00000430 7b f0 ca 4d 15 00 21 00 53 ef 01 00 01 00 00 00 |{..M..!.S.......| > 00000440 9d 7f 3b 4d 00 4e ed 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 |..;M.N..........| > 00000450 00 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 3c 00 00 00 |............<...| > 00000460 42 02 00 00 7b 00 00 00 4f a7 6a c3 f8 12 42 1c |B...{...O.j...B.| > 00000470 8f d2 5b ec 1a e9 fb 4c 64 61 74 61 00 00 00 00 |..[....Ldata....| > 00000480 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2f 6d 65 64 69 61 2f 64 |......../media/d| > 00000490 61 74 61 00 d8 dc 83 00 02 88 ff ff 38 da 59 4c |ata.........8.YL| > 000004a0 00 00 00 00 00 c6 70 c3 01 88 ff ff 00 96 56 23 |......p.......V#| > 000004b0 02 88 ff ff 40 7b 21 1d 02 88 ff ff dd 75 18 81 |....@{!......u..| This really is an ext4 signature. Volume label 'data' last mounted at '/media/data' on Wed, 11 May 2011 15:58:03 GMT. Given that date and your certainty that your array was v1.2, this must be garbage left over from a previous filesystem. > /dev/sde1 > 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| > * > 00000400 00 20 47 07 16 10 1c 1d 67 9a 74 01 8b 5d a6 1c |. G.....g.t..]..| > 00000410 f5 1f 47 07 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 |..G.............| > 00000420 00 80 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 20 00 00 0a 88 62 51 |......... ....bQ| > 00000430 d5 cb 62 51 05 00 24 00 53 ef 01 00 01 00 00 00 |..bQ..$.S.......| > 00000440 54 d4 81 50 00 4e ed 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 |T..P.N..........| > 00000450 00 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 3c 00 00 00 |............<...| Another false positive. >> Also show the following more picky signature search for each drive: >> dd if=/dev/sdd1 bs=1M count=1M |hexdump -C |grep -E '[048c]30 .+ 53 ef' > > I will provide this as soon as the processes are finished, seems to take > some more hours. We'll just have to wait for this. Your ext4 superblock should be in there somewhere. > there is also one more thing I remember, maybe it's helpful: when I was > starting the reshape, there was this message: > > mdadm: Need to backup 8192K of critical section.. If this was an actual error message, it may not have proceeded. We just don't know yet. 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