From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: recover short-time-power-failure of raid 5? Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:45:22 +1100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <15841.25746.94261.22043@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: message from krause@mogli-soft.de on Sunday November 24 To: krause@mogli-soft.de Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sunday November 24, krause@mogli-soft.de wrote: > hi folks! > > i am using a small 3-disk software raid on a linux redhat 7.3 system for > my home directory. > never had any problems since today, somehow the power cable of to two of > my disks dropped (a fan in the case got loose which was connected to the > same cable!). only some seconds later i shut down the system, switched > it off and reconneceted the disks. the raid device /dev/md0 was not used > by the time the power failure happend (i was not logged in, /dev/md0 > only contains /home), so actually there should be no loss of data. > but how do i tell the system just to reuse the disks? mdadm -A /dev/md0 --force /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc2 NeilBrown