From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 23 14:39:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA8AF16A416 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:39:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@wholemeal.net) Received: from mail9.messagelabs.com (mail9.messagelabs.com [194.205.110.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B825143D4C for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:38:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from greg@wholemeal.net) X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: greg@wholemeal.net X-Msg-Ref: server-20.tower-9.messagelabs.com!1164292765!25167971!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.10.7; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [212.135.210.82] Received: (qmail 6103 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2006 14:39:25 -0000 Received: from dsl-212-135-210-82.dsl.easynet.co.uk (HELO warprecords.com) (212.135.210.82) by server-20.tower-9.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 23 Nov 2006 14:39:25 -0000 Received: from [192.168.100.39] (HELO [192.168.0.10]) by warprecords.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.10) with ESMTPS id 6988297 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:39:24 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <377AB060-5521-4F50-A7B3-6A47968EC773@wholemeal.net> References: <377AB060-5521-4F50-A7B3-6A47968EC773@wholemeal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <5232AF14-E56E-48DA-8B74-EED28E7F2326@wholemeal.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Greg Eden Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:39:27 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Subject: Re: Rescuing mangled RAID5 array X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:39:27 -0000 Hello again, On 14 Nov 2006, at 18:30, Greg Eden wrote: > I'm trying to recover data from a broken RAID5 array (drive removed > whilst array was rebuilding!). > > [snip] > I'm trying > > dd if=/dev/da1s1d of=/raid2/rescueimage I'm trying not to equate lack of response to lack of chance of receovery! However... After 4 days dd eventually successfully created a 1.5TB image file of the trashed partition, so i can work on it without causing further damage. I successfully attached it with mdconfig. Running fsck_ufs on the resultant /dev/md0 causes fsck_ufs to eventually crash out with: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=42151497 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY CLEAR? yes fsck_ufs: bad inode number 42158080 to nextinode during Phase 1. Is there anyway to get around this so fsck can continue? Thanks in advance. Greg.