Alright, so i have a story of a person who made a stupid mistake.  Just wondering if there is any hope for me.

 

I had a 24GB array that was comprised of 1,2,3 and 5TB disks, it was bulky and loud, so i decided to get some larger disks and replace all the smaller ones.  So, I bought 4x8TB drives and created a new array.  I then took the parity disk out of my old array (5TB) and put it in as a cache disk in the new array.  I grabbed the first disk (the other 5TB one) put it in the new array and mounted it using the unassigned drives plugin.  Shared it out and used krusader to copy the data over.  But.....  I made a mistake, i copied from a share (called 5TB) to a disk (disk1).  I KNEW that i had to go disk to disk, or share to share, but I hadn't used the unassigned disk tool before, and made the mistake that since the share was under /disk/5TB it was a disk.  Spent the next 2 days moving data over to the array, and when it finished....  Most of it wasn't there, it's not on the old disk and most of it isn't on the new array either....  Oddly enough the unassigned drives plugin still shows that i have 3.6TB of data on the disk i was moving from, but there is nothing on it anymore when i browse through Krusader.  

 

Am i totally screwed?  Is there any way to fix this?  I was using reiserFS on the old disk if that makes any difference.

Edited April 30, 20197 yr by cephaswiebe
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i copied from a share (called 5TB) to a disk (disk1)

Not quite clear what you did or where the data is but that's not a problem, since source was not a user share, copying from a UD share to a disk share is not a problem.  

 

 

 

 

 

So i figured it out, no idea what I did but i copied the data into the wrong location..  Thanks for the reassurance that I didn't do anything catastrophic!