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by logicalshrapnel
13 Jun 2012, 19:19
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: TestDisk not working
Replies: 4
Views: 6191

Re: TestDisk not working

I realize I used the mdadm --examine wrong, here are the correct results:

sda1

# mdadm --examine /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : 3bb3eae6:062880d5:7473ce69:73b2b39c
Name : holisrv2:0 (local to host holisrv2)
Creation Time : Sat Oct 8 18:21 ...
by logicalshrapnel
13 Jun 2012, 19:16
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: TestDisk not working
Replies: 4
Views: 6191

Re: TestDisk not working

Thank you for the quick replies Remy. I found this tool and board when I had almost given up.
I got TestDisk working perfectly once I got the correct version in place. I hadn't realized that the one that came with the distro was old.

But out of sheer luck I found one more website talking about ...
by logicalshrapnel
13 Jun 2012, 17:54
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: TestDisk not working
Replies: 4
Views: 6191

TestDisk not working

Hello,

I have run into the unfortunate problem of a raid 5 ext4 set where two of three disks have failed. I want to try using TestDisk to restore them to operation (or PhotoRec) to rescue my files.

This is a Mandiva machine.

I've installed TestDisk and run it. It finds all the drives but as soon ...