lost ext3 partition after reinstalling os.

Phillip Susi psusi at cfl.rr.com
Tue Jan 17 20:15:05 UTC 2006


What does fdisk -l /dev/mapper/pdc_dcbagbdid show?


Michael Kovacs wrote:
> Hi, I recently desided to backup all my important data to my data array 
> and reinstall Fedora Core 4 as it was starting crash a lot. After 
> reinstall, dmraid does not activate the partition, it just activates the 
> raid set. I have googled extesnively on this for a few days now. Could 
> someone please help me on this?
> 
> # /sbin/dmraid -a y -vvv -ddd
> WARN: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock
> NOTICE: /dev/hde: pdc    discovering
> NOTICE: /dev/hde: pdc metadata discovered
> NOTICE: /dev/hdg: pdc    discovering
> NOTICE: /dev/hdg: pdc metadata discovered
> DEBUG: _find_set: searching pdc_dcbagbdid
> DEBUG: _find_set: not found pdc_dcbagbdid
> NOTICE: added /dev/hde to RAID set "pdc_dcbagbdid"
> DEBUG: _find_set: searching pdc_dcbagbdid
> DEBUG: _find_set: found pdc_dcbagbdid
> NOTICE: added /dev/hdg to RAID set "pdc_dcbagbdid"
> DEBUG: checking pdc device "/dev/hde"
> DEBUG: checking pdc device "/dev/hdg"
> DEBUG: set status of set "pdc_dcbagbdid" to 16
> pdc_dcbagbdid already active
> pdc_dcbagbdid already active
> INFO: Activating stripe RAID set "pdc_dcbagbdid"
> NOTICE: discovering partitions on "pdc_dcbagbdid"
> NOTICE: /dev/mapper/pdc_dcbagbdid: dos    discovering
> NOTICE: /dev/mapper/pdc_dcbagbdid: dos metadata discovered
> NOTICE: created partitioned RAID set(s) for /dev/mapper/pdc_dcbagbdid
> WARN: unlocking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock
> DEBUG: freeing devices of RAID set "pdc_dcbagbdid"
> DEBUG: freeing device "pdc_dcbagbdid", path "/dev/hde"
> DEBUG: freeing device "pdc_dcbagbdid", path "/dev/hdg"
> 
>  From this I gather that dmraid created the partitioned raidset but in 
> /dev/mapper all I have is pdc_dcbagbdid. Any help would be greatly 
> appreciated.
> Michael
> 
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