On December 13, 2008, Robert L Cochran wrote: > Could you have used one or more of: dd, ddrescue, and Testdisk to copy > your system to a set of spare drives and then work only on the spares > until you had a clear idea of what was wrong? I think that would have > gone a long way to sparing you from some data loss. Agreed, there are a multitude of different ways that I could have approached this that might have prevented loss of data. Fortunately, once I figured out what had happened I was able to mount both sda and sdb individually and get the files off that I needed. As for copying my system to a set of spare drives, its not like I (or likely too many other people here) just have a set of spare drives kicking around with a few hundred GB of empty space on them, "just in case" of emergency. Sounds great, but in practice What I want to emphasize from my initial post, though, was that its entirely possible for someone to get into this funky state and to have data loss and/or mirror failure without actually doing anything unusual. The F10 installed told me that it was installing onto the nvidia dmraid setup that I had, and thus I expected that as a result that when it was done that I'd actually be running on that dmraid setup (or that it'd at least throw some sort of message to indicate that it *wasn't*). Instead, though, I ended up running on bare sda. IMO, anyone who had a dmraid setup and that has since upgraded to F10 could now very likely be just as hosed as I was. Even if they don't get the behaviour of swapping from sda to sdb, they're still running *without* the dmraid that they were led to believe that they installed in/on. -- Graham TerMarsch -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
