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First post, by Oldskoolmaniac

Posted on 2017-01-14, 04:09

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So im having problems with my seagate nas (junk) it has really buggy firmware and I have been keeping up on the patches. ...Well i went to go rename a folder and now all 3 of my hard drive shares are gone and I cannot access them now, it still shows that the drives are healthy.

So my question is, is there a some way i can view these drives through my usb hard drive reader? When I plug a drive in my driver reader it show up as 6 partition and when I click on them it says "Do you want format the drive now"

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Reply 1 of 4, by elod

Posted on 2017-01-14, 09:30

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Boot a Linux live CD. Ubuntu for starters.

It can be any combination of (md) RAID, LVM and ext3/4 partitions. Newer Synology units are also using btrfs.

Reply 2 of 4, by Oldskoolmaniac

Posted on 2017-01-14, 15:52

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In Lununtu it says its a linux disk raid, but I still can mount it and this drive was never set up as a raid just span.

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Reply 3 of 4, by elod

Posted on 2017-01-14, 19:05

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Even if it was a simple volume the NAS setup would deploy it as "linux raid" for later migration.
Try mounting it directly but in read only mode (with the ro,noload options) and see what happens. There are competent undelete tools for ext2/3/4.
If it does not mount directly it may need to be activated with mdadm. Prior to this I'd make a full clone of the drive.
-r, --read-only
Mount the filesystem read-only. A synonym is -o ro.
Note that, depending on the filesystem type, state and kernel
behavior, the system may still write to the device. For example,
Ext3 or ext4 will replay its journal if the filesystem is dirty.
To prevent this kind of write access, you may want to mount ext3
or ext4 filesystem with "ro,noload" mount options or set the
block device to read-only mode, see command blockdev(8).

Reply 4 of 4, by Oldskoolmaniac

Posted on 2017-01-16, 15:37

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I got it all working. I re did everything, atl east I had a backup of everything.

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