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I have a 3TB raid, which was made originally with OPEN MEDIA VAULT, a media server. I have recently uninstalled OPEN MEDIA VAULT from the server and installed ubuntu 13.10.

The only problem I'm having is that I can't mount the raid disks and I DON"T want to lose the data at all, it's all my vital information.

Here's what I've tried:

mkdir /media/3TBRaid
// And then the mount command
sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdd/ /media/3TBRaid

This returns 'Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so'

I'm fairly new to LINUX in general, so please don't yell at me :)

The two drives, that I actually want to mount as one are device:

1: /dev/sdd
2. /dev/sdc

The type of both of these drives are 'linux_raid_member'

Could someone please help me on how to correctly mount the two drives as one without loosing my data?

Thankyou!

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as mount specified, something wrong with the FS(file system).
Try this: (It'll format the drive with ext4 format)

 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdd 

If format successes then try these mounting steps again

mkdir /media/3TBRaid
// And then the mount command
sudo mount /dev/sdd/ /media/3TBRaid

hope it helps .!!

EDITED:

instead of this(): follow this link

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  • wouldn't that get rid of my data though? I can't stress enough that I don't want to loose this data :(
    – Shannon
    Sep 9, 2013 at 4:31
  • yes, that would be a problem... are you sure that it's a ext4 drive ...!! Sep 9, 2013 at 4:36
  • on all my other drives, the type is ext4, but on the two mentioned above, they both say type='linux_raid_member'
    – Shannon
    Sep 9, 2013 at 4:38
  • but the mount command was for mounting a ext4 FS(drive). i found this article link Sep 9, 2013 at 4:45
  • Yes as I mentioned I don't know Linux that well
    – Shannon
    Sep 9, 2013 at 4:45
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From your error messasge

bad superblock on /dev/sdd, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

That sounds , something wrong with that device. use fsck to check the and fix the possible error.

fsck -y /dev/sXX

mention your partition there to check and automatically fix the errors in your partition.

hope that helps.

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  • It's saying fsck.linux_raid_member: not found, is there a way of fixing this without loosing the data?
    – Shannon
    Sep 9, 2013 at 4:45
  • @Shannon , fsck -y /dev/sdd thats enough.
    – Raja G
    Sep 9, 2013 at 4:46
  • I did that already, What I posted in my comment is what that comment returned
    – Shannon
    Sep 9, 2013 at 4:49
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First check the raid(s):

d@monster:~/Apps $>sudo dmraid -r
/dev/sdd: isw, "isw_fhabhedd", GROUP, ok, 3907029166 sectors, data@ 0
/dev/sdc: isw, "isw_fhabhedd", GROUP, ok, 3907029166 sectors, data@ 0
/dev/sdb: isw, "isw_dhejejifba", GROUP, ok, 3907029166 sectors, data@ 0
/dev/sda: isw, "isw_dhejejifba", GROUP, ok, 3907029166 sectors, data@ 0

Then, mount the ones you like:

d@monster:~/Apps $>sudo mount /dev/mapper/isw_fhabhedd_SPEED /media/d/SPEED/

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