From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Can't mount partitions after "mdadm --zero-superblock"
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:52:57 +1000
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On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 18:33:36 -0700 Eduard Rozenberg <eduardr@pobox.com> wrot=
e:

> Thanks very much Neil!
>=20
> I never do anything forward thinking like mdadm =E2=80=94examine before
> doing destructive things :). Unfortunately.
>=20
> I couldn=E2=80=99t figure out how to make the offset work so I used
>=20
> losetup -f --show -P /dev/sdac

Sounds like you are saying "I couldn't make the drill work, so I tried usin=
g 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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