I have a drive that was pulled from a Ubuntu 18.04 raid 1 and set aside.
I am trying to se what can be done with the drive.
I installed it is a external USB enclosure and connected it to a Ubuntu
18.04 desktop,
The Drive is a 1 TB Toshiba drive but gparted and gnome-disks give
really odd results.
Starting gparted from a terminal I get this message:
Code:
gparted
Unit -.mount does not exist, proceeding anyway.
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libparted : 3.2
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Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Gparted reports sdb as 931.51GiB but reports partition sdb1 as 7.25 TiB.
Gparted has the following warning:
Code:
Unable to detect file system! Possible reasons are:
- The file system is damaged
- The file system is unknown to GParted
- There is no file system available (unformatted)
- The device entry /dev/sdb1 is missing
boot and raid flags are set.
Obviously something is wrong.
I originally use the drive to replace another smaller drive in a Raid 1
array and that array was created with mdadm and maybe lvm2.
Is there a reasonable way to see if the drive has anything usable in it?
