I hope it wouldn't be a problem if I, without cross-posting, but rather, drawing attention the my thread at this forum, tried to get help from my Gentoo mates on the:
https://forums.gentoo.org/
There's often been people who helpe me get me out in similar messes there.
And it's a huge community, pretty huge. I hope, to the extent of my linux raid issue, which seems obvious to me that my partition recovery boils down to, I hope that it is also advantageous for this forum.
Because I am stalled at this time.
Did a lot, but this hurdle stalls me.
LVM2 on raid6 partition recovery Topic is solved
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Re: LVM2 on raid6 partition recovery
What gives ?
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mdadm --run /dev/md127Re: LVM2 on raid6 partition recovery
Not yet gone anywhere.
Found and reading this:
http://www.issociate.de/board/post/5088 ... ssues.html
It's "all spares" to be found there, and it's the author of mdadm's wrote there.
Be back.
Found and reading this:
http://www.issociate.de/board/post/5088 ... ssues.html
It's "all spares" to be found there, and it's the author of mdadm's wrote there.
Be back.
Re: LVM2 on raid6 partition recovery
Official archive with Neil Brown's suggestion in similar situation is this.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg34840.html
And yes, I'll look deeper yet, and then ask what I will be intent on issueing
at the command line on the linux-raid mailing list, to which I just subscribed:
http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-raid
I'd better spend a few more hours, but get my 532 GiB data partition back!
Even though I could restore each of the 5 drives in the state back when I dumped
their images, that is some two or more days' worth of work, plus redoing some of the
story that can be seen above, so this deep thinking is faster appoach, right?
http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg34840.html
And yes, I'll look deeper yet, and then ask what I will be intent on issueing
at the command line on the linux-raid mailing list, to which I just subscribed:
http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-raid
I'd better spend a few more hours, but get my 532 GiB data partition back!
Even though I could restore each of the 5 drives in the state back when I dumped
their images, that is some two or more days' worth of work, plus redoing some of the
story that can be seen above, so this deep thinking is faster appoach, right?
Re: LVM2 on raid6 partition recovery
I didn't wait for so long...
But I will inform with a link to this thread other users at the linux-raid mailing list that I mention in previous post, because I believe it can be of use to other mdadm users.
Here's how the story is hopefully nearing a fine ending.
In case there is no power outage (I owned a UPS, but it's... dead
now after all the years of use...), I might have recovered my data.
No, I'm not touching anything in my at8-g200 box, where the
resync is going on of /dev/md127.
And it will take long to hopefully accomplish.
Have a look how it went.
OK. So --examine (-E) we will.
Here it is for all the members of this data raid6,
/dev/sda6 through /dev/sdf6, or /dev/sd[abcdf].
I don't understand why all but /dev/sda6 show at least one "faulty removed" member.
I can be back to read the explanation if anyone can tell us some time in the future.
Since I was given a lot by people like CG Security's author, through my Linux years,
when I can, I also explain things for the next Linux users.
For that same reason, while my data raid6 partition is resyncing (I really expect it to allow
the LVM2 to recognize it and to get my data back just fine), I'll conclude this narrative,
because I believe it might be useful to someone else in the future, just like Chad Walker's plea to which Neil Brown replied (I gave link further above) and he got his data back was useful to me.
There we need to start from /dev/md127 stopped, as it is below (and not showing
in /dev/mdstat), /dev/md127.
Sure enough. It's not in /proc/mdstat.
That was not very explanatory. So "-v" is added from now on.
Yeah. Forgot to stop it. Now stopping it first.
Here we'll see how the friend mdadm is more talkative.
Attempting to assemle all the members first.
How this comes about, and why, I have no idea.
Doubling the verbosity below doesn't seem to say any more. No it doesn't.
Let's try different combinations.
Pls. note that there is no rationale behind my different attempts.
Only mere guessing.
I think I have to leave the bash outputs below just as they were.
I like to be positive in my analyses, and not leave things for guessing.
And here comes the stroke of luck.
Of all the combinations above, and I don't know if there are other possible
combinations, won't spend any more time to investigate... Hey this has already
ruined my schedule as is!
This following combination is the only one that looks capable to be resuscitated.
That's the Neil Brown's suggestion. Only enshrined in the code, not live as for Chad Walker!
That's me being a little confused by the events. Of course, it's just "force", not "forceidx".
Of course, Miro the Confused forgot to stop the array.
Here we go. You ain't getting away from me just yet. Be good, dear friend mdadm!
Right!
Sure enough, now just add those two remaining members.
Voilà! The raid6 important data partition is alive.
In the half hour or more, since I began this current post, that's where we're at.
I'll be back just to tell you if LVM2 found its volume. Because the filesystem is on the LVM2 on top of /dev/md127.
But I will inform with a link to this thread other users at the linux-raid mailing list that I mention in previous post, because I believe it can be of use to other mdadm users.
Here's how the story is hopefully nearing a fine ending.
In case there is no power outage (I owned a UPS, but it's... dead
now after all the years of use...), I might have recovered my data.
No, I'm not touching anything in my at8-g200 box, where the
resync is going on of /dev/md127.
And it will take long to hopefully accomplish.
Have a look how it went.
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at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Q /dev/sda6
/dev/sda6: is not an md array
/dev/sda6: device 2 in 5 device undetected raid6 /dev/.tmp.md127. Use mdadm --examine for more detail.
at8-g200@sysresccd %Here it is for all the members of this data raid6,
/dev/sda6 through /dev/sdf6, or /dev/sd[abcdf].
I don't understand why all but /dev/sda6 show at least one "faulty removed" member.
I can be back to read the explanation if anyone can tell us some time in the future.
Since I was given a lot by people like CG Security's author, through my Linux years,
when I can, I also explain things for the next Linux users.
For that same reason, while my data raid6 partition is resyncing (I really expect it to allow
the LVM2 to recognize it and to get my data back just fine), I'll conclude this narrative,
because I believe it might be useful to someone else in the future, just like Chad Walker's plea to which Neil Brown replied (I gave link further above) and he got his data back was useful to me.
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at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -E /dev/sda6
/dev/sda6:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : 03a9e99f:6af97c47:82dd0df0:537ac377
Creation Time : Fri Dec 3 17:28:25 2010
Raid Level : raid6
Used Dev Size : 186257408 (177.63 GiB 190.73 GB)
Array Size : 558772224 (532.89 GiB 572.18 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 127
Update Time : Thu Mar 1 10:58:46 2012
State : active
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 958ba4bc - correct
Events : 36125
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 2 8 6 2 active sync /dev/sda6
0 0 8 86 0 active sync /dev/sdf6
1 1 8 54 1 active sync /dev/sdd6
2 2 8 6 2 active sync /dev/sda6
3 3 8 22 3 active sync /dev/sdb6
4 4 8 38 4 active sync /dev/sdc6
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -E /dev/sdb6
/dev/sdb6:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : 03a9e99f:6af97c47:82dd0df0:537ac377
Creation Time : Fri Dec 3 17:28:25 2010
Raid Level : raid6
Used Dev Size : 186257408 (177.63 GiB 190.73 GB)
Array Size : 558772224 (532.89 GiB 572.18 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 127
Update Time : Thu Mar 1 11:11:03 2012
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 3
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 958c3502 - correct
Events : 36129
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 3 8 22 3 active sync /dev/sdb6
0 0 8 86 0 active sync /dev/sdf6
1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed
2 2 0 0 2 faulty removed
3 3 8 22 3 active sync /dev/sdb6
4 4 0 0 4 faulty removed
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -E /dev/sdc6
/dev/sdc6:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : 03a9e99f:6af97c47:82dd0df0:537ac377
Creation Time : Fri Dec 3 17:28:25 2010
Raid Level : raid6
Used Dev Size : 186257408 (177.63 GiB 190.73 GB)
Array Size : 558772224 (532.89 GiB 572.18 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 127
Update Time : Thu Mar 1 11:04:19 2012
State : active
Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 4
Failed Devices : 1
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 958ba63b - correct
Events : 36126
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 4 8 38 4 active sync /dev/sdc6
0 0 8 86 0 active sync /dev/sdf6
1 1 8 54 1 active sync /dev/sdd6
2 2 0 0 2 faulty removed
3 3 8 22 3 active sync /dev/sdb6
4 4 8 38 4 active sync /dev/sdc6
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -E /dev/sdd6
/dev/sdd6:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : 03a9e99f:6af97c47:82dd0df0:537ac377
Creation Time : Fri Dec 3 17:28:25 2010
Raid Level : raid6
Used Dev Size : 186257408 (177.63 GiB 190.73 GB)
Array Size : 558772224 (532.89 GiB 572.18 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 127
Update Time : Thu Mar 1 11:04:19 2012
State : active
Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 4
Failed Devices : 1
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 958ba645 - correct
Events : 36126
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 1 8 54 1 active sync /dev/sdd6
0 0 8 86 0 active sync /dev/sdf6
1 1 8 54 1 active sync /dev/sdd6
2 2 0 0 2 faulty removed
3 3 8 22 3 active sync /dev/sdb6
4 4 8 38 4 active sync /dev/sdc6
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -E /dev/sdf6
/dev/sdf6:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : 03a9e99f:6af97c47:82dd0df0:537ac377
Creation Time : Fri Dec 3 17:28:25 2010
Raid Level : raid6
Used Dev Size : 186257408 (177.63 GiB 190.73 GB)
Array Size : 558772224 (532.89 GiB 572.18 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 127
Update Time : Thu Mar 1 11:11:03 2012
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 3
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 958c353c - correct
Events : 36129
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 0 8 86 0 active sync /dev/sdf6
0 0 8 86 0 active sync /dev/sdf6
1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed
2 2 0 0 2 faulty removed
3 3 8 22 3 active sync /dev/sdb6
4 4 0 0 4 faulty removed
at8-g200@sysresccd %in /dev/mdstat), /dev/md127.
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at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -E /dev/md127
mdadm: cannot open /dev/md127: No such file or directory
at8-g200@sysresccd % cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md126 : active raid5 sda5[0] sdf5[4] sdd5[3] sdc5[2] sdb5[1]
9638400 blocks level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]
md125 : active raid6 sdb2[3] sdf2[0] sdd2[1] sdc2[4] sda2[2]
19277568 blocks level 6, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]
unused devices: <none>
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -A /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/md127 not identified in config file.
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[abcdf]6
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 2 drives - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[abcdf]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sda6: Device or resource busy
mdadm: /dev/sda6 has no superblock - assembly aborted
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -S /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd %Attempting to assemle all the members first.
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at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[abcdf]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sda6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sdb6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 3.
mdadm: /dev/sdc6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 4.
mdadm: /dev/sdd6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 1.
mdadm: /dev/sdf6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 0.
mdadm: added /dev/sdd6 to /dev/md127 as 1
mdadm: added /dev/sda6 to /dev/md127 as 2
mdadm: added /dev/sdb6 to /dev/md127 as 3
mdadm: added /dev/sdc6 to /dev/md127 as 4
mdadm: added /dev/sdf6 to /dev/md127 as 0
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 2 drives - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -S /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[abcdf]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sda6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sdb6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 3.
mdadm: /dev/sdc6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 4.
mdadm: /dev/sdd6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 1.
mdadm: /dev/sdf6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 0.
mdadm: added /dev/sdd6 to /dev/md127 as 1
mdadm: added /dev/sda6 to /dev/md127 as 2
mdadm: added /dev/sdb6 to /dev/md127 as 3
mdadm: added /dev/sdc6 to /dev/md127 as 4
mdadm: added /dev/sdf6 to /dev/md127 as 0
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 2 drives - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Ss /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd %Pls. note that there is no rationale behind my different attempts.
Only mere guessing.
I think I have to leave the bash outputs below just as they were.
I like to be positive in my analyses, and not leave things for guessing.
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at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[bcdf]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sdb6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 3.
mdadm: /dev/sdc6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 4.
mdadm: /dev/sdd6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 1.
mdadm: /dev/sdf6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 0.
mdadm: added /dev/sdd6 to /dev/md127 as 1
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 2 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sdb6 to /dev/md127 as 3
mdadm: added /dev/sdc6 to /dev/md127 as 4
mdadm: added /dev/sdf6 to /dev/md127 as 0
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 2 drives - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Ss /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[acdf]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sda6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sdc6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 4.
mdadm: /dev/sdd6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 1.
mdadm: /dev/sdf6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 0.
mdadm: added /dev/sdd6 to /dev/md127 as 1
mdadm: added /dev/sda6 to /dev/md127 as 2
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 3 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sdc6 to /dev/md127 as 4
mdadm: added /dev/sdf6 to /dev/md127 as 0
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 1 drive - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Ss /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[abdf]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sda6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sdb6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 3.
mdadm: /dev/sdd6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 1.
mdadm: /dev/sdf6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 0.
mdadm: added /dev/sdd6 to /dev/md127 as 1
mdadm: added /dev/sda6 to /dev/md127 as 2
mdadm: added /dev/sdb6 to /dev/md127 as 3
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 4 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sdf6 to /dev/md127 as 0
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 2 drives - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Ss /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[abcf]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sda6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sdb6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 3.
mdadm: /dev/sdc6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 4.
mdadm: /dev/sdf6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 0.
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 1 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sda6 to /dev/md127 as 2
mdadm: added /dev/sdb6 to /dev/md127 as 3
mdadm: added /dev/sdc6 to /dev/md127 as 4
mdadm: added /dev/sdf6 to /dev/md127 as 0
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 2 drives - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Ss /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[abcd]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sda6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sdb6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 3.
mdadm: /dev/sdc6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 4.
mdadm: /dev/sdd6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 1.
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 0 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sdd6 to /dev/md127 as 1
mdadm: added /dev/sda6 to /dev/md127 as 2
mdadm: added /dev/sdc6 to /dev/md127 as 4
mdadm: added /dev/sdb6 to /dev/md127 as 3
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 1 drive - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Ss /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[bcf]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sdb6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 3.
mdadm: /dev/sdc6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 4.
mdadm: /dev/sdf6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 0.
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 1 of /dev/md127
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 2 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sdb6 to /dev/md127 as 3
mdadm: added /dev/sdc6 to /dev/md127 as 4
mdadm: added /dev/sdf6 to /dev/md127 as 0
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 2 drives - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[acf]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sdc6: Device or resource busy
mdadm: /dev/sdc6 has no superblock - assembly aborted
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Ss /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[acf]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sda6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sdc6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 4.
mdadm: /dev/sdf6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 0.
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 1 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sda6 to /dev/md127 as 2
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 3 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sdc6 to /dev/md127 as 4
mdadm: added /dev/sdf6 to /dev/md127 as 0
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 1 drive - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Ss /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[abf]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sda6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sdb6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 3.
mdadm: /dev/sdf6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 0.
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 1 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sda6 to /dev/md127 as 2
mdadm: added /dev/sdb6 to /dev/md127 as 3
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 4 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sdf6 to /dev/md127 as 0
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 2 drives - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Ss /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[adf]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sda6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sdd6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 1.
mdadm: /dev/sdf6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 0.
mdadm: added /dev/sdd6 to /dev/md127 as 1
mdadm: added /dev/sda6 to /dev/md127 as 2
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 3 of /dev/md127
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 4 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sdf6 to /dev/md127 as 0
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 1 drive - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Ss /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[abc]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sda6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sdb6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 3.
mdadm: /dev/sdc6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 4.
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 0 of /dev/md127
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 1 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sda6 to /dev/md127 as 2
mdadm: added /dev/sdc6 to /dev/md127 as 4
mdadm: added /dev/sdb6 to /dev/md127 as 3
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 1 drive - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Ss /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[abd]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sda6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sdb6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 3.
mdadm: /dev/sdd6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 1.
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 0 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sdd6 to /dev/md127 as 1
mdadm: added /dev/sda6 to /dev/md127 as 2
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 4 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sdb6 to /dev/md127 as 3
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 1 drive - not enough to start the array.
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Ss /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd %Of all the combinations above, and I don't know if there are other possible
combinations, won't spend any more time to investigate... Hey this has already
ruined my schedule as is!
This following combination is the only one that looks capable to be resuscitated.
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at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[acd]6
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sda6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sdc6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 4.
mdadm: /dev/sdd6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 1.
mdadm: device 2 in /dev/md127 has wrong state in superblock, but /dev/sda6 seems ok
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 0 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sda6 to /dev/md127 as 2
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 3 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sdc6 to /dev/md127 as 4
mdadm: added /dev/sdd6 to /dev/md127 as 1
mdadm: /dev/md127 assembled from 3 drives - not enough to start the array while not clean - consider --force.
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[acd]6 --forceidx
mdadm: unrecognized option '--forceidx'
Usage: mdadm --help
for help
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[acd]6 --force
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sda6: Device or resource busy
mdadm: /dev/sda6 has no superblock - assembly aborted
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -Ss /dev/md127
mdadm: stopped /dev/md127
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md127 /dev/sd[acd]6 --force
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md127
mdadm: /dev/sda6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sdc6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 4.
mdadm: /dev/sdd6 is identified as a member of /dev/md127, slot 1.
mdadm: clearing FAULTY flag for device 0 in /dev/md127 for /dev/sda6
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 0 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sda6 to /dev/md127 as 2
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 3 of /dev/md127
mdadm: added /dev/sdc6 to /dev/md127 as 4
mdadm: added /dev/sdd6 to /dev/md127 as 1
mdadm: /dev/md127 has been started with 3 drives (out of 5).
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -D /dev/md127
/dev/md127:
Version : 0.90
Creation Time : Fri Dec 3 17:28:25 2010
Raid Level : raid6
Array Size : 558772224 (532.89 GiB 572.18 GB)
Used Dev Size : 186257408 (177.63 GiB 190.73 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 3
Preferred Minor : 127
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu Mar 1 11:04:19 2012
State : clean, degraded
Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 3
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
UUID : 03a9e99f:6af97c47:82dd0df0:537ac377
Events : 0.36126
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 0 0 0 removed
1 8 54 1 active sync /dev/sdd6
2 8 6 2 active sync /dev/sda6
3 0 0 3 removed
4 8 38 4 active sync /dev/sdc6
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm /dev/md127 -a /dev/sdb6
mdadm: re-added /dev/sdb6
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm /dev/md127 -a /dev/sdf6
mdadm: added /dev/sdf6
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -D /dev/md127
/dev/md127:
Version : 0.90
Creation Time : Fri Dec 3 17:28:25 2010
Raid Level : raid6
Array Size : 558772224 (532.89 GiB 572.18 GB)
Used Dev Size : 186257408 (177.63 GiB 190.73 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 127
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu Mar 8 09:31:59 2012
State : clean, degraded, recovering
Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 2
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
Rebuild Status : 0% complete
UUID : 03a9e99f:6af97c47:82dd0df0:537ac377
Events : 0.36131
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 0 0 0 removed
1 8 54 1 active sync /dev/sdd6
2 8 6 2 active sync /dev/sda6
6 8 22 3 spare rebuilding /dev/sdb6
4 8 38 4 active sync /dev/sdc6
5 8 86 - spare /dev/sdf6
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
root@sysresccd /root % mdadm -D /dev/md127
/dev/md127:
Version : 0.90
Creation Time : Fri Dec 3 17:28:25 2010
Raid Level : raid6
Array Size : 558772224 (532.89 GiB 572.18 GB)
Used Dev Size : 186257408 (177.63 GiB 190.73 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 127
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu Mar 8 10:10:44 2012
State : clean, degraded, recovering
Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 2
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
Rebuild Status : 54% complete
UUID : 03a9e99f:6af97c47:82dd0df0:537ac377
Events : 0.36149
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 0 0 0 removed
1 8 54 1 active sync /dev/sdd6
2 8 6 2 active sync /dev/sda6
6 8 22 3 spare rebuilding /dev/sdb6
4 8 38 4 active sync /dev/sdc6
5 8 86 - spare /dev/sdf6
root@sysresccd /root %I'll be back just to tell you if LVM2 found its volume. Because the filesystem is on the LVM2 on top of /dev/md127.
Re: LVM2 on raid6 partition recovery
Well, now that there is one redundant drive synced, we can talk.
As expected, the volume group...
...and the logical volume..
...are there, and..
...will be...
mounted.
Data there! Recovered!
That would've been a lot to lose, right?
And what to think about people who lose their livelihood for political imprisonment?
What for the Syrians persecuted and killed in the first place, by their own rulers,
supported by world still somewhat sickly Russia, for the remnants of the monstrous communist
way of thinking and doing (so is my country Croatia, plagued by bolsheviks turned capitaists... on power)...
That is even worse, to lose lives, your own or your dearests', but also to lose livelihood is bad enough.
I can only pray for the Syrians, and for the political prisoners and politically persecuted (of which there are in my country of the former and of the latter --some are friends of mine--, and for that matter I might become one, but also in the Western countries, only it is better camouflaged than on the East).
And thinking of what God gives us, I am grateful, for my part.
God bless everyone who will be reading this!
Miroslav Rovis
Croatia
miro.rovis@gmail.com
m.rovis@inet.hr
01 660 2633
091 266 0202
http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr (no English at this time)
http://www.exDeo.com (some English there)
http://groups.google.com/group/croatian-news/ (very little English there)
http://www.youtube.com/user/miroR2 (videos, so...)
What will come of this one:
http://www.youtube.com/user/prosvjednikkrcmarek (not mine, but a friend's profile, where I put lots of stuff when Google banned me to post videos longer than 15 minutes)
Here some English stuff too:
http://vimeo.com/user9621785
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at8-g200@sysresccd % mdadm -D /dev/md127
/dev/md127:
Version : 0.90
Creation Time : Fri Dec 3 17:28:25 2010
Raid Level : raid6
Array Size : 558772224 (532.89 GiB 572.18 GB)
Used Dev Size : 186257408 (177.63 GiB 190.73 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 127
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu Mar 8 10:54:10 2012
State : clean, degraded, recovering
Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K
Rebuild Status : 0% complete
UUID : 03a9e99f:6af97c47:82dd0df0:537ac377
Events : 0.36313
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
5 8 86 0 spare rebuilding /dev/sdf6
1 8 54 1 active sync /dev/sdd6
2 8 6 2 active sync /dev/sda6
3 8 22 3 active sync /dev/sdb6
4 8 38 4 active sync /dev/sdc6
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % vgscan
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "vg" using metadata type lvm2
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % vgchange -ay
1 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg" now active
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mkdir /mnt/Cmn
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % mount /dev/vg/Cmn /mnt/Cmn
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % ls -l /mnt/Cmn
total 2099252
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 9 2011 Audacity
drwxr-xr-x 10 1000 1000 4096 Feb 23 05:47 dLo
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 28 2011 DVD-CD.img
drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 users 4096 Feb 18 17:49 dwhelper
drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 1000 4096 Feb 27 04:58 Kaff
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 27 2010 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 Jan 26 12:27 m
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1130 Nov 15 23:35 mdadm2old_at8-g250-c.sh
drwxr-xr-x 39 1000 1000 12288 Feb 28 14:50 MyVideos
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2147483648 Dec 8 10:12 swapfile
drwxr-xr-x 4 1000 1000 4096 Dec 13 22:16 ThBird
at8-g200@sysresccd %Code: Select all
at8-g200@sysresccd % df -h /mnt/Cmn
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg-Cmn 524G 426G 72G 86% /mnt/Cmn
at8-g200@sysresccd %And what to think about people who lose their livelihood for political imprisonment?
What for the Syrians persecuted and killed in the first place, by their own rulers,
supported by world still somewhat sickly Russia, for the remnants of the monstrous communist
way of thinking and doing (so is my country Croatia, plagued by bolsheviks turned capitaists... on power)...
That is even worse, to lose lives, your own or your dearests', but also to lose livelihood is bad enough.
I can only pray for the Syrians, and for the political prisoners and politically persecuted (of which there are in my country of the former and of the latter --some are friends of mine--, and for that matter I might become one, but also in the Western countries, only it is better camouflaged than on the East).
And thinking of what God gives us, I am grateful, for my part.
God bless everyone who will be reading this!
Miroslav Rovis
Croatia
miro.rovis@gmail.com
m.rovis@inet.hr
01 660 2633
091 266 0202
http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr (no English at this time)
http://www.exDeo.com (some English there)
http://groups.google.com/group/croatian-news/ (very little English there)
http://www.youtube.com/user/miroR2 (videos, so...)
What will come of this one:
http://www.youtube.com/user/prosvjednikkrcmarek (not mine, but a friend's profile, where I put lots of stuff when Google banned me to post videos longer than 15 minutes)
Here some English stuff too:
http://vimeo.com/user9621785
Re: LVM2 on raid6 partition recovery
I am really sorry. I only right now, at this time in Central Europe:cgrenier wrote:What gives?Code: Select all
mdadm --run /dev/md127
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miro@at8-g250-c / $ date
Thu Mar 8 12:26:15 CET 2012
miro@at8-g250-c / $ Pls., I would've replied if I saw it earlier!
Thank you for the insight testdik gave me, although the route to recovery proves rightly different to take in my particular case.
I'm also afraid it is irrelevant to try your suggestion as it is all over.
And thanks for the nice Forum!
Re: LVM2 on raid6 partition recovery
Here, I point linux-raid users:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=133121914429398&w=2
to this saga here that I wrote recovering my data on this forum.
Because, I believe there are questions as to how to prevent a loss like this one that nearly hit me hard!
I am dead tired.
So tired there is "a" missing for "Croatia" at end of that mail to linux-raid mailing list.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=133121914429398&w=2
to this saga here that I wrote recovering my data on this forum.
Because, I believe there are questions as to how to prevent a loss like this one that nearly hit me hard!
I am dead tired.
So tired there is "a" missing for "Croatia" at end of that mail to linux-raid mailing list.