On Thursday, March 04, 2010 01:15 PM, Jeff Sadino wrote:
Backups? I wish :) I will now.
/me hands Jeff a big clueby4 to use on the former admin.
But looking closer, that md1 is not my OS partition, just a data partition. If I take that md1 entry out of the raidtab file and restart the computer, I would think that it would start up just fine, minus the data partition (and for the moment neglecting any vital programs that might be installed on that partition). My question is when I start the computer back up, in order to start up without that partition there any more, will the OS write any new files or anything that will not be reversible?
Yes...logs mainly. Most probably not reversible that lot. You may need to comment out the entry in /etc/fstab for md1 too. You might see messages from services tied to the data partition and if they get in the way of start up, just go into single-user mode and disable them...
Thank you again, Jeff
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Ross Walker <rswwalker@gmail.com mailto:rswwalker@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mar 3, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Jeff Sadino <jsadino.queens@gmail.com <mailto:jsadino.queens@gmail.com>> wrote: > Ok, I'm learning a lot about raids and what to do, and what not to > do. Looking at some info I had before, md1 was 200GB in size, which > makes sense, but it was only 39GB full. The way I repartitioned > drive 1, I probably overwrote only about 11GB. Does that make it > any easier to recover any amount of the raid? Is there some sort of > "recover lost partitions" option in Linux or gparted? Don't you have backups of this data? You can just re-create the raid0 and restore the data. -Ross _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org <mailto:CentOS@centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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