Re: raid 5 out of sync won't mount

[Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:52:48AM -0600, Monty Charlton wrote:
> Luca Berra wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:45:45AM -0600, Monty Charlton wrote:
...
> 
> Thank you for the reply.
> 
> I read that in the howto, but feared it would destroy my data.  As the 
> mkraid manpage says, "... destroys all of the data on the consituent 
> devices."
> 
> I read the message, and am about to use the secret flag, but I want to 
> be sure.  This will not simply wipe out my data?  This will only resync 
> my two good drives?  Sorry to be such a coward...just trying to be sure 
> of what I'm doing.

I think our mails crossed on the wire   ;)    Please see the other mail
I just sent to the list.

Especially the part about perhaps dd'ing images of your partitions to
some other storage...

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