Hello list,
I just replaced my home server and moved the disks from the old one over to the
new one. In the old server, 4 of the disks were connected to a twa (3Ware 9550)
controller, which of course has it's own way of marking units/volumes on those
disks.
Before you start yelling at me, yes, of course I made backups ;) [*]
The thing is, I have these disks in the new server and I found that I (to my
surprise) I can actually mount them! But, I'm missing a large part and I am
wondering if there's some method to access those last partitions too.
Here's what gpart show says about the problematic disk:
# gpart show /dev/ada4
=> 34 41942972 ada4 GPT (931G) [CORRUPT]
34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64k)
162 1048448 2 freebsd-ufs (512M)
1048610 6291456 3 freebsd-swap (3.0G)
7340066 1048576 4 freebsd-ufs (512M)
8388642 2097152 5 freebsd-ufs (1.0G)
10485794 31457211 6 freebsd-ufs (15G)
41943005 1 - free - (512B)
As you can see, most (about 910GB) of the disk is missing! This disk was one
half of a mirror on the twa controller, which had those disks split in two
again (I don't recall how, perhaps 2 different BSD slices?)
I already looked if that part may perhaps have ended up as a different device.
On the old server, fstab was this:
# cat /tmp/solfertje/etc/fstab
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
# These are the partitions listed above in gpart
/dev/da0p2 / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/da0p3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/da0p4 /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/da0p5 /tmp ufs rw 2 2
/dev/da0p6 /usr ufs rw 2 2
# These are missing
/dev/da1p1 /home ufs rw 2 2
/dev/da1p2 /media ufs rw 2 2
# These are on a different disk (ada2)
/dev/da2p1 /media2 ufs rw 2 2
I don't _really_ need to get to those partitions, but it would be a comfortable
thought if it were possible somehow.
[*] The reason I was trying to access those disks anyway is that I thought I
forgot to backup my database tables, but it turns out I had just misplaced that
backup and it has been restored now.
Alban Hertroys
--
If you can't see the forest for the trees,
cut the trees and you'll find there is no forest.
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