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A recent Ubuntu server reboot caused two of the SOFT RAID5 disk (/dev/sdd and /dev/sdf) losing its partition table (/dev/sdd1 and /dev/sdf1), I have tried to use R-Studio that can directly connect to the drive image and R-Studio scan can see the file system. there is a good chance the RAID data is still there on the disk just I cannot access it.

Assuming the disk RAID data is store there, if I can figure out a way to get the partition table back by cloning the partition table from other RAID member disk in the RAID (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, identical model size) using the sfdisk command to this disk, will it 1) destroy/touch the RAID data on /dev/sdd 2) make mdadm assemble still able to use the data on the "new" /dev/sdd1 partition?

Twinkiestar
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  • What RAID, which RAID level? If it's something else than RAID 0, why don't you simply re-format it and add it to the RAID as a new disk? The RAID should build the disk back on its own. – Peregrino69 Mar 28 '23 at 19:24
  • I guess /dev/hdd is an hardware RAID (on the other hand, we would have /dev/md0 or something like this, but it must be confirmed (and you quote mdadm which deals with software RAID). Note, that if it has no or a corrupted partition table, sfdisk won't be able to copy anything interesting. – Frédéric Loyer Mar 28 '23 at 19:31
  • It is a mdadm RAID 5, problem is I have two such disks in the RAID suffering similar partition issue, so it cannot recover automatically. – Twinkiestar Mar 29 '23 at 00:50

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