[Grml] Is accessing striped "dynamic disks" from GRML possible?

[Michael Gebetsroither]

hi,

> I wanted to rescue some files from a broken Win2000 install with grml.
> The data to rescue were stored on a striped partition on a dynamic disk
> (Windows' equivalent to a software raid0).
> However, I did not manage it to reassemble or mount this partition. it
> appeared as two separate partitions (one on each drive). Google
> suggested to run ldminfo, but that tool is not there, and I could not
> find it :(

There is some doku on this in the kernel docs about ntfs, usually at:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt

- Using NTFS volume and stripe sets
   - The Device-Mapper driver
   - The Software RAID / MD driver
   - Limitations when using the MD driver

The recommed way is to use the device-mapper for anything but raid5.

There is an allready compiled ldminfo tool in the ldmtool package:
http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/linux-ntfs/linux-ldm-0.0.8.tar.gz

michael