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Hi,
So I've had some issues with my NAS for a while. Most of it was accessible via the network but I didn't have access to the web-based admin section, and found myself locked out of a couple of shares I'd previously marked private. Not the end of the world as I still had access to most of my data however I'm now feeling optomistic and am trying to salvage the private section so I can reinitialise the device and start a new.
I've got the HD out of the NAS and stuck it in my desktop. I only had 1 physical drive in the NAS however It's still set it up in some sort of RAID array; with which I'm not familiar.
So I've managed to see the HD through Windows' Disk Management- although can't assign drive letters or even attempt to mount any partition.
I tried UFS Explorer; which could see and restore any file however the shareware version had a file size limit of 64KB.
I then figured that as it's an ext(3 i think) file system perhaps I could get to it from a Linux Live session. I've stuck the latest Kubuntu on a USB Stick and am trying to get at it, however with no success.
The device is listed (sdb) in the Partition Editor however the mount option is disabled.
When trying to mount dev/sdb3 via the konsole I'm being told it can't happen as the filesystem type is 'linux_raid_member'.
I was searching around and gave mdadm --assemble a go; which managed to mount the array with "1 of 2 drives"; however it's only mounted the NAS's system partition, and ignored the partition full of data I'd like.
Does anyone know how I might get it mounted? I don't need write access; just the ability to back up a few bits before I reinitialise the NAS? Any help would be really appreciated.
Cheers,
Dean
So I've had some issues with my NAS for a while. Most of it was accessible via the network but I didn't have access to the web-based admin section, and found myself locked out of a couple of shares I'd previously marked private. Not the end of the world as I still had access to most of my data however I'm now feeling optomistic and am trying to salvage the private section so I can reinitialise the device and start a new.
I've got the HD out of the NAS and stuck it in my desktop. I only had 1 physical drive in the NAS however It's still set it up in some sort of RAID array; with which I'm not familiar.
So I've managed to see the HD through Windows' Disk Management- although can't assign drive letters or even attempt to mount any partition.
I tried UFS Explorer; which could see and restore any file however the shareware version had a file size limit of 64KB.
I then figured that as it's an ext(3 i think) file system perhaps I could get to it from a Linux Live session. I've stuck the latest Kubuntu on a USB Stick and am trying to get at it, however with no success.
The device is listed (sdb) in the Partition Editor however the mount option is disabled.
When trying to mount dev/sdb3 via the konsole I'm being told it can't happen as the filesystem type is 'linux_raid_member'.
I was searching around and gave mdadm --assemble a go; which managed to mount the array with "1 of 2 drives"; however it's only mounted the NAS's system partition, and ignored the partition full of data I'd like.
Does anyone know how I might get it mounted? I don't need write access; just the ability to back up a few bits before I reinitialise the NAS? Any help would be really appreciated.
Cheers,
Dean