On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 15:26 -0700, Steve Strobel wrote:
> 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.
Yup that would probably be your best course of action at this point.
>
> Steve
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