Dear Andreas, In message <20160516131439.GA2850@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 02:58:01PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > Seems I was lucky - already the second of the 120 possible > > combination turned out to be working: b a c d f e > > Find a large enough file (disks * chunksize) and verify it. Running "fsck -f -n" over one of the (big, multi million files) file systems turned out to be a quick and good enough test. > With GPT partition table, I set PARTLABEL to mdnumber-role so that's > another place that has metadata in case mdadm loses its own... > Since GPT lives at beginning and end of the disk it should have a > good chance of surviving accidents, and you can address them as > /dev/disk/by-partlabel/mdnumber-* in the correct order... So far I did not use any partitioning at all on such drives. never needed it... > Anyway, glad you (hopefully, finally?) got your data back. Yes, indeed, all data recovered. And I really owe you a beer... Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone- Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary? :-)] - Larry Wall in <1992Jan10.201804.11926@xxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
