Hi again! Roy: Thank you for your input. This recovery of the misaligned data takes a lot of time but I'm keeping this task till the end of the array. Wol: Then I'll try this but someone has to guide me to do this shrink and try to get the initial array alignment. Thank you both! Best, Jorge Wols Lists <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu no dia quarta, 6/04/2022 à(s) 20:57: > > On 05/04/2022 11:50, Jorge Nunes wrote: > > Hi roy. > > > > Thank you for your time. > > > > Now, I'm doing a photorec on /dev/sda and /dev/sdd and I get better > > results on (some) of the data recovered if I do it on top of /dev/md0. > > I don't care anymore about recovering the filesystem, I just want to > > maximize the quality of data recovered with photorec. > > Once you've recovered everything you can, if no-one else has chimed in, > do try shrinking it back to a 2-disk raid-5. It SHOULD restore your > original filesystem. You've then just got to find out where it starts - > what filesystem was it? > > If it's an ext4 there's probably a signature which will tell you where > it starts. Then somebody should be able to tell you how to mount it and > back it up properly ... > > I'm sure there will be clues to other file systems, ask on your distro > list for more information - the more people who see a request for help, > the more likely you are to get some. > > Cheers, > Wol
