From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Jordaan Subject: Re: Recovering RAID5 array Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:40:44 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <400D05AC.4030409@upfrontsystems.co.za> References: <400CD0BF.2010808@upfrontsystems.co.za> <16396.53737.911347.812076@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> <400CE215.2050502@upfrontsystems.co.za> <16396.64514.820157.677722@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16396.64514.820157.677722@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil, thank you very much for your help .. > mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l 5 -n 3 /dev/hda3 missing /dev/hdc3 Did that, once with 'missing' in each place. All I get: cdimage root # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --raid-devices=3 --level=5 --spare-devices=0 --chunk=64 missing /dev/hdb3 /dev/hdc3 mdadm: /dev/hdb3 appears to be part of a raid array: level=5 devices=3 ctime=Tue Jan 20 10:35:45 2004 mdadm: /dev/hdc3 appears to be part of a raid array: level=5 devices=3 ctime=Tue Jan 20 10:09:43 2004 Continue creating array? y mdadm: array /dev/md0 started. cdimage root # mount -r -t reiserfs /dev/md0 /mnt/gentoo/raid/ mount: Not a directory cdimage root # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid5 ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part3[2] ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part3[1] 76003328 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/2] [_UU] unused devices: -- Jean Jordaan http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za