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From: Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Problem diagnosing rebuilding raid5 array
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:04:15 +0100
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On 15/10/2013 16:01, peter@steinhoff.se wrote:
>>>
>>> Also I have my old sdh with data on it but I don't know how current 
>>> that data is but perhaps I can use that somehow?
>>>
>> You could mdadm --examine it, but I suspect that the event count will 
>> be way out of line by now.
>>
>
> I will put it in and see what it shows. Is it correct to assume that 
> --examine reads the superblock and I can insert the drive into any 
> machine and examine it there?
>
Yes and yes.