[mythtv-users] OT: RAID5 JFS drive dissapeared?!

[Steven Adeff]

On 5/10/07, Alex Malinovich <demonbane at the-love-shack.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 18:22 -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > so between last night (when i last used it) and now, my RAID5 archive
> > array has dissapeared, the md0 is still there but the JFS partition is
> > no longer present according to cfdisk!
> >
> > anyone have any idea as to what has happened or how i can try and
> > recover this "lost" JFS partition?
>
> I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug, but I've never been able to
> read the partition table on a software RAID device (md#). The partitions
> are still there and work just fine, I just can't read the partition
> table. You may want to try accessing the partition as usual and see if
> you have any luck. It may still be there just not readable by disk
> partitioning tools.

OK, sounds like your right, i ran 'jfs_fsck -vf' on the drive and it
got it working and mounted.

phew, scared me =)
thanks!

-- 
Steve
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