yanaek
November 23rd, 2011, 11:01 AM
I think I lost all my (very important) data from MDADM/LVM raid array after upgrading to 11.10.
I had 4 x 1TB disks in mdadm as one PhysicalVolume for LVM.
After upgrade and reboot I was notified, that home and other directories, which were on raid, are not readable and need to be fsck'ed.
Fsck was unsuccessful so i rebooted and checked mdadm and I realized that in mdadm two of four disks have no partition, it looked like this:
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc1
/dev/sdd1
/dev/sde
fdisk /dev/sdb and sde showed errors in partition table (invalid flag 0x00...)
I re-created partitions (1) on sdb and sde and set up fd flag again. Then restored volume group config from LVM but seems like all data is lost.
How can it be possible that during upgrade I got errors on two of my raid 5 disks???
I had 4 x 1TB disks in mdadm as one PhysicalVolume for LVM.
After upgrade and reboot I was notified, that home and other directories, which were on raid, are not readable and need to be fsck'ed.
Fsck was unsuccessful so i rebooted and checked mdadm and I realized that in mdadm two of four disks have no partition, it looked like this:
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc1
/dev/sdd1
/dev/sde
fdisk /dev/sdb and sde showed errors in partition table (invalid flag 0x00...)
I re-created partitions (1) on sdb and sde and set up fd flag again. Then restored volume group config from LVM but seems like all data is lost.
How can it be possible that during upgrade I got errors on two of my raid 5 disks???