[Gllug] I've lost my RAID partition in to the ether.....

[Andy Farnsworth]

Nick,
  You have it right, if you unmount your RAID from /home and do an "ls -alF
/home" what do you see?  If it is empty, then just ignore my post.  I have
done exactly that before, just not with RAID.  Prepared a volume and set a
mount point and told Linux to mount it on reboot, but never rebooted or
mounted it manually.  Therefore everything I was doing was into the /home
directory on my root volume (actually, my location was /mnt/altlinux but
same thing), then my power shutoff when my UPS ran out of power, my Linux
server shut itself down safely.  However, on reboot, it mounted the prepared
volume and everything I had "disappeared".  When I unmounted the volume,
everything came back.  So if this doesn't work for you I am out of
suggestions.

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
Of Nick Warrington
Sent: February 17 2003 14:47
To: 'gllug at linux.co.uk'
Subject: RE: [Gllug] I've lost my RAID partition in to the ether.....


> Nick,
>   You have probably tried this, but just unmount the RAID and
> check the
> mount point.  You might have never actually mounted the RAID
> before and just
> been writing to a different drive altogether.

Thanks for responding Andy,

My mount point was /home. I was definately reading and writing to /home, the
way I see it is that I was either writing to an unmounted mount point, or
writing to one of the partitions mounted at the mount point, or writing to
the RAID mounted at the mount point. Is there anything else I missed, where
else could it be?

Nick

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