I am in the process of fucking up, how to unfuck?

Yes, i accidentally zeroed 209MB of my main hard drive. Thankfully i cloned it to the second one, so i ghess i should be fine. But how do i recover that? Do i just dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda count=209453568 ?

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  • ehabehab Content Writer

    i suppose you pressed ctrl+c while its zeroing. try to mount sdb and see if you see your files? if so then your oky, otherwise others might suggest recovery.

  • @ehab said:
    i suppose you pressed ctrl+c while its zeroing. try to mount sdb and see if you see your files? if so then your oky, otherwise others might suggest recovery.

    Yes, i pressed ^C while recovering. It looks like sda and sdb are identical (as well as the partition table and various UUIDs), and since it didn't touch the raid i just copied sdb1 over sda1

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    @foxone said:

    @ehab said:
    i suppose you pressed ctrl+c while its zeroing. try to mount sdb and see if you see your files? if so then your oky, otherwise others might suggest recovery.

    Yes, i pressed ^C while recovering. It looks like sda and sdb are identical (as well as the partition table and various UUIDs), and since it didn't touch the raid i just copied sdb1 over sda1

    Boot to rescue, dd /dev/sdb to /dev/sda, reboot with fingers crossed. That's my guess at least, but wait for a second opinion.

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    I’d say backup while it’s live if you can access files on sdb

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    @Mason said:

    @foxone said:

    @ehab said:
    i suppose you pressed ctrl+c while its zeroing. try to mount sdb and see if you see your files? if so then your oky, otherwise others might suggest recovery.

    Yes, i pressed ^C while recovering. It looks like sda and sdb are identical (as well as the partition table and various UUIDs), and since it didn't touch the raid i just copied sdb1 over sda1

    Boot to rescue, dd /dev/sdb to /dev/sda, reboot with fingers crossed. That's my guess at least, but wait for a second opinion.

    ^ seconded.

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  • @AnthonySmith said:

    @Mason said:

    @foxone said:

    @ehab said:
    i suppose you pressed ctrl+c while its zeroing. try to mount sdb and see if you see your files? if so then your oky, otherwise others might suggest recovery.

    Yes, i pressed ^C while recovering. It looks like sda and sdb are identical (as well as the partition table and various UUIDs), and since it didn't touch the raid i just copied sdb1 over sda1

    Boot to rescue, dd /dev/sdb to /dev/sda, reboot with fingers crossed. That's my guess at least, but wait for a second opinion.

    ^ seconded.

    Done.. And it's dead!

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    edited July 2020

    @foxone said:

    @AnthonySmith said:

    @Mason said:

    @foxone said:

    @ehab said:
    i suppose you pressed ctrl+c while its zeroing. try to mount sdb and see if you see your files? if so then your oky, otherwise others might suggest recovery.

    Yes, i pressed ^C while recovering. It looks like sda and sdb are identical (as well as the partition table and various UUIDs), and since it didn't touch the raid i just copied sdb1 over sda1

    Boot to rescue, dd /dev/sdb to /dev/sda, reboot with fingers crossed. That's my guess at least, but wait for a second opinion.

    ^ seconded.

    Done.. And it's dead!

    What exactly did you do, exactly?

    My guess is you just never installed grub on sdb, boot it with supergrubdisk find the OS, boot it, install grub.

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  • ehabehab Content Writer

    you zeroed the mbr and need to create a new one. If you know the configuration then just boot in rescue and --- use fdisk or parted to create same EXACTLY the same map and remount.

  • ehabehab Content Writer

    FYI, i used testdisk to undelete files ... i am fedora , sudo dnf install testdisk

  • foxonefoxone OG
    edited July 2020

    Apparently the entire /boot partition is gone. The raid is untouched and I can mount it fine (so the /) is fine

    Edit: it also looks like the raid contains /boot with all the kernels and stuff.

  • ehabehab Content Writer

    thats good news... istn't it?

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  • @ehab said:
    thats good news... istn't it?

    Now I just gotta understand how to move that boot folder to the boot partition and install grub on it.

  • ehabehab Content Writer

    i suggest you backup what you want first ... the rest is easy.

  • foxonefoxone OG
    edited July 2020

    :)

    Edit: don't ask me why that weird ass configuration where i have two swap partitions and two boot partitions. Debian did that with the automatic installed when i set the drives as raid - i guess it's trash but it saved my ass today, so i really cannot complain.

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