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kane82
Jun 06, 2013Aspirant
How to recover data usin Linux
Hello everybody, I have a ReadyNas 104 with 3 x 3 TB HDD in RAID 5. My Problem is that the RN104 is nolonger working. I need to access the data on the HDD and don't have a clue how to do so. I i...
mdgm-ntgr
Jun 07, 2013NETGEAR Employee Retired
What happened that led to your RN104 no longer working?
How full is the 4GB partition that you've mounted?
You would need to assemble the RAID using mdadm, then mount the btrfs volume.
Something like this should work (you may need to apt-get some packages such as mdadm and btrfs-progs first if they are not already on your system):
N.B. It's possible the data volume may be e.g. on /dev/md126. But looking at the output of cat /proc/mdstat you should be able to confirm which md device it is on.
How full is the 4GB partition that you've mounted?
You would need to assemble the RAID using mdadm, then mount the btrfs volume.
Something like this should work (you may need to apt-get some packages such as mdadm and btrfs-progs first if they are not already on your system):
# mdadm --assemble --scan
# cat /proc/mdstat
# mount -t btrfs -o ro /dev/md127 /mnt
N.B. It's possible the data volume may be e.g. on /dev/md126. But looking at the output of cat /proc/mdstat you should be able to confirm which md device it is on.
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