need help with RAID1 EFI GPT disks

[Carruth, Rusty]

I recommend doing a DD of each partition to its own file, then a 'dd
if=/dev/sd<x> count=1' to a file to get the partition table.

For one thing, it means you can try mounting each file readonly ('mount
-o ro,loop file.for.partition.1 /mnt/looking').

For another, if you had multiple partitions, each of which would fit on
drives you have 'laying around', but all of which wouldn't fit on a
single drive - you can restore the partitions to different drives and
possibly be up and running without having to buy a new drive
immediately....

Rusty 


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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of George
Toft
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2014 8:44 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: need help with RAID1 EFI GPT disks

installed gdisk and it looks like /dev/sdb is damaged, but /dev/sdc is
good :)  doing a dd on the whole drive to a file on another drive so I
have a backup.  I'll check back in a couple days when it's done.