On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:04 AM, John R Pierce
<pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
On 06/26/11 12:58 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>
> All the drives are old 160GB SATA. There's 1x 160GB IDE as well.
>
> They were used in the office on various machines, so no hardware RAID,
> but they definitely had some data on them.
> I did get some drives with software RAID on and could recover the
> data, but there's 2 drives which I can't figure out what filesystem
> they have / had on them.
> We use Linux & FreeBSD, so I suspect they had ZFS / UFS on them, but
> couldn't mount them on a FreeBSD server with ZFS or UFS either.
>
is it possible you used the raw disk without partitioning? so in
linux, that would be /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1 or whatever.
on a random server with normally partitioned disks...
# file -s /dev/sda
/dev/sda: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1,
startsector 63, 256977 sectors; partition 2: ID=0xfd, starthead 0,
startsector 257040, 4192965 sectors; partition 3: ID=0xfd, starthead 0,
startsector 4450005, 138914055 sectors, code offset 0x48
# file -s /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery)
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