Trying to recover 20TB LVM2 on Linux md
Posted: 28 Aug 2012, 16:55
I've had an issue with a corrupted checksum on a single drive in my raid-6 md after every reboot. Following some instructions online, I stopped the array and recreated it with the --assume-clean option. The md created fine (although after reboot the drive still demonstrates a corrupted checksum, so I think the drive is borked), but the partition table on it is gone. I'm really hoping my data isn't gone.
When I run testdisk, it does immediately find an LVM2 partition in Quick and Deep scans, and while it and the md are both 20TB/18TiB, it says the hard-drive is too small:
The fact that it can see the partition gives me hope that my data isn't gone, but I'm not sure what to do at this point.
When I run testdisk, it does immediately find an LVM2 partition in Quick and Deep scans, and while it and the md are both 20TB/18TiB, it says the hard-drive is too small:
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Disk /dev/md0 - 20 TB / 18 TiB - CHS 4883782460 2 4
The harddisk (20 TB / 18 TiB) seems too small! (< 23 TB / 21 TiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partitions can't be recovered:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Linux LVM 512 0 1 588815615 1 4 39070259200