I made a log of my testing - perhaps this'll help Vennlig hilsen roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- Hið góða skaltu í stein höggva, hið illa í snjó rita. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jorge Nunes" <jorgebnunes@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Wols Lists" <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk" <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Linux Raid" <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, 6 April, 2022 22:46:10 > Subject: Re: RAID 1 to RAID 5 failure > 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
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