Hi all,
my head is smoking, I'm completely at a loss now. I've got an old 2TB MBWE (white light) that at some point lost its shares. The web interface still shows the two shares, but I can't access them from a Mac or PC. I disassembled the drive and put it into another WD external casing that I still had, and ran into the problem that the drive is encrypted (disk utility showed four partitions, but couldn't read any data). So I thought it's a better bet to put the disk back into the MBWE casing and try to access the data through SSH.
What I found:
- apparently, there is some sort of RAID set up, as the /dev/md0 to /dev/md3 are all mapped to /dev/sda1…4 .
- there is NO /etc/fstab file… is that an issue?
- all the small partitions are mounted, but the /dev/md2 partition which is mapped to /dev/sda4 doesn't mount.
- when I try to mount the partition, it gives me an Illegal Parameter error.
- apparently, the partition doesn't have a recognizable file system. When I do an e2fsck, I get an error about a bad superblock. If I try to use the backup blocks, none of them work.
So I reckon the only way to save my data would be to do some sort of corrupted partition repair, and that's where I got completely confused.
There's a tool called TestDisk which I wanted to install, but apparently the Linux version that's on the MBWE is super reduced and doesn't have any package installer other than IPKG, which doesn't know the TestDisk package. So I tried to install all sorts of other package managers, like OPKG and Pacman, but even they require some sort of basic package manager. I just ran from one rabbit hole to the next and have no clue if I'm actually chasing up the correct problem, if the drive itself is at all recoverable or if there are any other options that make more sense.
HELP! :)
thanks all
Da_H-Man