Will Dyson on 18 Aug 2005 05:26:08 -0000 |
On 8/17/05, chris@chrisbovasso.com <chris@chrisbovasso.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I did find the /dev/mapper directory filled with > dmraid's files. However when I try to open any of them I am unable to do > so. If I do it through the GUI I get a simple "could not display" error. > > Is there something else I am doing wrong? The files that are in > /dev/mapper are: > > control sil_acababaaajfg1 VolGroup00-LogVol00 > sil_acababaaajfg sil_acababaaajfg2 VolGroup00-LogVol01 I'm not sure what you mean by "open them". Previously, you indicated your understanding of the need to mount a block device (the logical raid volume being an example of a block device) in order to access a filesystem on that device, so I'll assume that you aren't just double-clicking on the device file and expecting it to do something. If you are unable to mount any of those sil_foo files as an ntfs filesystem, perhaps too many blocks are bad (or are bad in a critical place on the filesystem). But before giving up, I suggest you read the dmraid man page and examine the output of 'dmraid -r'. That should tell you something about what raid volumes dmraid thinks it has discoverd. There seem to be other dmraid options that would list information about what it has discovered as well. You didn't mention what partitions, etc you had on the raid volume. It looks to me as if dmraid has discovered 2 partitions on the raid volume and created the block device files sil_acababaaajfg1and sil_acababaaajfg2 for them. Is this the expected result? Did you have a C: and D: drives in windows? Also helpful is to examine the output of the 'dmesg' command, after any error occurs (the same info is logged to your syslog). Dmesg prints the kernel's log buffer to the screen. So starting from the last thing printed, go up and look for lines that may have something to do with ntfs or diskmapper or read errors from the physical drives. That should help you figure out what is going on. Feel free to ask for more help, but please include a more detailed description of -- Will Dyson ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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