From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: Should I Start Over? Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:51:05 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040707145105.GA30207@percy.comedia.it> References: <1147.66.230.1.97.1088603162.squirrel@exitwound.org> <20040630165540.GA1099@percy.comedia.it> <1775.66.230.1.97.1088620939.squirrel@exitwound.org> <20040706210654.GB17694@percy.comedia.it> <1165.66.230.1.97.1089206618.squirrel@exitwound.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1165.66.230.1.97.1089206618.squirrel@exitwound.org> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 08:23:38AM -0500, Stephen Hargrove wrote: >Luca Berra said: >> >> you can try to see if you can read your data by recreating the array in >> degraded mode, so it does not rebuild. >> >> like: >> mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdd1 missing >> try substituting the word missing for each of the drives >> and see if you can mount the filesystem >> if you do find your data use: >> mdadm /dev/md0 -a >> to have it added to the array again >> > > >Ok, I did the following: > ># mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdd1 >/dev/hdc1 you were supposed to replace one of the disks with the word "missing", so you could test it before resyncing and try different disc combination to see if you could get your data back. >So is this good or bad? Is my data gone forever (I gave up on it a while >back, so if it's gone, it's gone)? > yes, your data is gone. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \