fsck command for oversized RAID arrays?

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ghostcorps

Hi Guys

I have just had a blackout and my RAID5 array isn't mounting after rebooting.

I have a RocketRAID 2320 hardward card, using all 8 channels with 500G SATA II's in a RAID5 array.

This has happened to me before, and after alot of research I found an fsck command that worked for oversized (2.3T) arrays. I am pretty sure it had to do with fsck_ffs, but I lost the file where I wrote it down and I can not for the life of me remember what it was!

When I tried mount it said the file system was not clean and to run fsck, fsck could not detect filesystem type so I tried fsck_ffs, which seemed to work. But now mount says 'operation not permitted'. Please tell me I didn't just lose all my media!

Can someone please help?

Thanks :)
 
Thanks. I've never seen fsck_ufs.

Still no good though :(

I'm going to try mounting it with a live linux flavour, maybe it will handle the mount differently enough to let me back it up over the wire.

Someone also mentioned forcing a clean dismount... I haven't looking into that yet.
 
ghostcorps said:
I'm going to try mounting it with a live linux flavour, maybe it will handle the mount differently enough to let me back it up over the wire.
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As far as I know Linux has no support for UFS so this isn't going to work.
 
SirDice said:
FFS is not the correct one. It's UFS.
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These are both the same binary (hard-linked):
Code: 
[fcash@myserver  ~]$ ls -li $( which fsck_ffs fsck_ufs )
1201175 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  87016 Jun 25  2008 /sbin/fsck_ffs
1201175 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  87016 Jun 25  2008 /sbin/fsck_ufs

And the man page only references fsck_ffs.

You can use either binary, they do exactly the same thing.
 
fronclynne said:
If the filesystem is still there you can force mount it dirty or mount it read-only to backup your information.
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:stud

# mount -o ro /dev/da2p1 /mnt

My eyes just got all teary! :r Thankyou so much!!!!
 
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