Re: Possible to rescue SW Raid5 with 2 missing Disks

[Robin Hill <robin@robinhill.me.uk>]

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On Thu Feb 14, 2013 at 10:00:29 +0100, Dragon wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> the 40TB are in an filecluster and this machine is part of this. the
> system consists of 6x3tb in sw raid5. there are four partions on each
> machine. one with 100mb for the efi bios, one for the os in raid1, one
> for the swap in raid5 and one for the files in raid5. the machine was
> opened and the disk layed beside, i moved two disks slightly and in
> this moment both spinded for a second down and the raid was gone.
> there was no filetransfer but the raid couldnt rebuild because of
> missing two disks.
> 
The standard option to try is a forced assembly - "mdadm -Af /dev/mdX"

If that fails, then please retry with "-vv" as well and post both the
output from the command and the dmesg output.

HTH,
    Robin
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