We have a LinkSys EFG250 NAS that uses XFS on hard drives that are
mounted in removable carriages. Thinking that the drives were
hot-swappable (they apparently are not), someone unplugged the drive
in bay 1 and plugged it back into the same spot, then removed an
almost empty drive from bay 2 and replaced it with an almost full
drive that had been installed there previously. We removed both
drives and installed them (one at a time) in a PC running Fedora Core
4, mounting them with the command:
mount -o norecovery,ro /dev/hdb1 /linksys
The drive from bay 1 (that was just unplugged and re-installed in the
same bay) shows no user data; just the directories that the LinkSys
NAS uses. Correspondingly, "du" shows very little disk space
used. "df", on the other hand, shows that the disk is almost full,
suggesting that the original data may still be on the drive.
Similarly, the nearly full drive that was installed into bay 2 after
the nearly empty one shows only a few empty directories in the user
data area (the same ones that were on the nearly empty drive), "du"
shows very little space used, and "df" shows that the disk is almost full.
Is there any chance of recovering the data on those drives? Is
mounting them read/write and running xfs_repair the best route to
take? Thanks for any suggestions.
Steve
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Steve Strobel
Link Communications, Inc.
1035 Cerise Rd
Billings, MT 59101-7378
(406) 245-5002 ext 102
(406) 245-4889 (fax)
WWW: http://www.link-comm.com
MailTo:steve.strobel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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