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 at gmail.com > <mailto:rswwalker at gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Jeff Sadino <jsadino.queens at gmail.com > <mailto:jsadino.queens at 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 at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos