Recover Data on Seagate Central NAS Drive

Also tried the mnt here are the results

Ok i think everyone is sleeping, we will pick this up tomorrow, I will leave the linux box up and running!

Thanks everyone for all the help, I was playing around in xubuntu tonight and forgot how damn QUICK that OS could run!

Also tried the mnt here are the results

ls -a /mnt/sdb1

sudo umount /dev/sdb1

al@my_desktop_pc:~$ sudo umount /dev/sdb1
umount: /dev/sdb1: not mounted

Edited by Al1000, 08 May 2015 - 04:27 AM.

Hey There

Ill turn the Linux box on again and check, stand by a few minutes!

This is what I get when I ls - a that mount point

/dev/sdb1 is not showing in fstab either

Edited by jaysodyssey, 08 May 2015 - 04:56 AM.

At least it seems to be mounted.

I take it that there are supposed to be more files on the partition than just one called uImage?

yes close to 3tb worth

Whats next, R-Linux wont load either!

Ok gparted with lvm2 pacakge installed shows the screenshot below

Unless lbiki can advise further with R-Linux, I suggest starting a thread in the Internal Hardware Forum.

There are some knowledgeable people in there who know much more about hardware than we in the Linux forum do.

Best of luck!

Ok I do remember why I stopped using Linux now, there were to many dead ends when support was needed. I know thats not your fault. I will see if ibiki has anything to add!

I love windows because the knowledge and the usability is so different, Linux has its awesome traits, but it will never be windows!

Thanks for the help!

Your GParted screenshot looks more promising. I would try and mount /dev/sdb8 and see if you can see your files.

I tried that , i got a " jay@jaylinux:~$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb8 /mnt/SEAGATE2
mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'"

I also tried using gpart to do a partition recovery, first it said it needed a long time to scan, when I said OK it said

" no file systems found, the disk scan did not find any recognizable file systems on the disk"

I also found this post interesting as well

http://pissedoffadmins.com/os/mount-unknown-filesystem-type-lvm2_member.html

This file system SHOULD be ext4 btw

Edited by jaysodyssey, 08 May 2015 - 05:22 AM.

Seemingly LVM filesystems are mounted differently than 'normal' Linux filesystems. This is the first I've heard of them. There is some info in this thread which seemed to work according to the OP:

 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2227161

A lot of this is greek to me, we are playing with FIRE of over 3 tb of IRREPLACEABLE data here

getting closer

Not sure exactly what it wants to hear