Re: I just trashed my RAID5 array - recovery possible?

* Ross Vandegrift <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2003-03-20 14:35]:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:22:27PM +0100, Wolfram Schlich wrote:
> > I've put up the logfile of fsck at
> > http://wolfram.schlich.org/tmp/fsck.log.1
> > I have no idea whether this is an "uncomfortable large amount of
> > damage", so would you mind having a look at it? :-) TIA!
> 
> That's a pretty huge amount of damage.  If fsck is able to fix it
> without trashing data, then it doesn't matter.  I missed how big your
> array was, but if you have the resources to make an image of the raw
> devices, I'd definately reccomend you do so:

Unfortunately the array is 4x120G. I just don't have that space
anywhere else :-(( Anyway, do the *kinds* of errors show these are
'critical' ones?

> # cat /dev/hdx > /some/path/with/lots/of/space/hdx.img
> 
> This will let you restore your disks and try again.  At any rate, good
> luck with the data.

Thanks.
-- 
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