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Posted: **26 Dec 2016, 07:00**

Hello,
I have lost the partition table of 4 members of my linux raid 5 that consists of 5 devices (WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0).

Only the following partition table was left:

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$ sudo sfdisk -l /dev/sdg
Disk /dev/sdg: 3.7 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: FA6B09CD-30E5-479A-A401-199491BAF0A7

Device     Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdg1   2048 7814028976 7814026929  3.7T Linux RAID

The other 4 members were overriden:

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$ sudo sfdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 3.7 TiB, 3999677808640 bytes, 7811870720 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device     Boot Start        End    Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1           1 4294967295 4294967295   2T ee GPT

I could restore 2 additional partition tables by using TestDisk.

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Disk /dev/sdc - 4000 GB / 3726 GiB - CHS 486401 255 63
     Partition               Start        End    Size in sectors
>P Linux Raid                  2048 7813766151 7813764104

But I have a problem with the 2 missing devices, because they have an other logical sector size:

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Disk /dev/sdf: 3.7 TiB, 4000787021824 bytes, 976754644 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device     Boot Start        End    Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdf1           1 4294967295 4294967295  16T ee GPT

I tried to change the blocksize to 512 and the cylinders to 486401 in TestDisk according to the other devices.
The partition was found but fdisk does not recognize the disklabel and type. There must be some issue because of the 4096 sector size.

I hope, someone can help me!

Thanks!

All partitions were created by the following commands:

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$ sudo parted /dev/sdd mklabel gpt 
$ sudo parted -a optimal -- /dev/sdd mkpart primary 2048s -8192s
$ sudo parted /dev/sdd set 1 raid on

Posted: **26 Dec 2016, 07:10**

fdisk uses dos partition tables, they are limited to 2 TB.
Please post the testdisk.log file for /dev/sdf from TestDisk 7.1-WIP using EFI GPT for the partition table without changing the disk geometry.

Posted: **26 Dec 2016, 07:21**

Thank you so much for the fast response!

Now the scan seems to work. (with 7.1-WIP)

I have written the partition table, but the disk identifier becomes zero? Can I ignore this?

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Disk /dev/sdf: 3.7 TiB, 4000787021824 bytes, 976754644 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Device     Start       End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdf1    256 976720768 976720513  3.7T Linux RAID

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Linux Raid 5 - lost partition tables - 4096 sector size issue?

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