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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Eduard Rozenberg <eduardr@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can't mount partitions after "mdadm --zero-superblock"
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:52:57 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150407115257.1e3eba73@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CE6323D1-485D-4951-9E99-CBE5A09AE7BD@pobox.com>

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On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 18:33:36 -0700 Eduard Rozenberg <eduardr@pobox.com> wrote:

> Thanks very much Neil!
> 
> I never do anything forward thinking like mdadm —examine before
> doing destructive things :). Unfortunately.
> 
> I couldn’t figure out how to make the offset work so I used
> 
> losetup -f --show -P /dev/sdac

Sounds like you are saying "I couldn't make the drill work, so I tried using a
hammer"... and then were surprised that you couldn't make any holes.

Try harder to make the offset work.  if/when it doesn't, report exactly what
you did and exactly what the result was.

NeilBrown

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-07  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-06 23:45 Can't mount partitions after "mdadm --zero-superblock" Eduard Rozenberg
2015-04-07  0:52 ` NeilBrown
2015-04-07  1:33   ` Eduard Rozenberg
2015-04-07  1:52     ` NeilBrown [this message]
2015-04-07  3:31   ` Eduard Rozenberg
2015-04-10  2:53     ` Personal insight - " Eduard Rozenberg

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