On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:04 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at 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) > > > > > -- > john r pierce N 37, W 122 > santa cruz ca mid-left coast > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > It's hard to say. They've been in the cupboard for along time and I don't know which tech did what on them, which is why I'm trying to see which file systems were on them last, so that I can see what data is on them. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110626/b17b04cc/attachment-0005.html>