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Stanman130
Apr 03, 2014Guide
OS6 Data Recovery - How to Mount BTRFS Volumes
I recently purchased a ReadyNAS 314 and 5 Seagate ST2000VN000 hard disks (one as a cold spare). I work as a system administrator, so I've been reading up on OS6 before I entrust this new system with m...
mdgm-ntgr
Apr 04, 2014NETGEAR Employee Retired
It doesn't use LVM anymore. On Linux the steps are actually less involved than for previous OSes to mount the volume.
Just need an ordinary Linux PC with a reasonably up to date kernel, and to install mdadm and btrfs-progs (if they are not already installed).
Something like:
Your data volumes should be on /dev/md127, /dev/md126 etc.
/dev/md0 holds the 4GB OS partition and /dev/md1 is for swap.
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Just need an ordinary Linux PC with a reasonably up to date kernel, and to install mdadm and btrfs-progs (if they are not already installed).
Something like:
# apt-get update
# apt-get install mdadm btrfs-tools
# mdadm --assemble --scan
# cat /proc/mdstat
# mount -t btrfs -o ro /dev/md127 /mnt
Your data volumes should be on /dev/md127, /dev/md126 etc.
/dev/md0 holds the 4GB OS partition and /dev/md1 is for swap.
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