On Thursday, March 04, 2010 11:33 AM, nate wrote: > Jeff Sadino 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? > > The partition is just a map, if you can re-create the partition > exactly the way it was before, the data should still be there if > it wasn't overwritten. That problem was that he had it formatted as ext3... > > But as far as I know there isn't a backup stored of the partition > table, if the disk is exactly the same as the other member, then you > can try duplicating the partition setup using the first disk as > a guide. +1 > > I don't know whether or not it will help restore a RAID 0 set, > but may be worth a shot since the situation probably can't get > much worse. Just hope that the ext3 format only hit blocks contain non-essential data...and nothing related to filesystem structure and yada, yada