Re: RAID5 - 2nd drive died whilst waiting for RMA

[David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>]

Guy wrote:

>Sorry, the command should be:
>mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/hdb1
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>Guy
>  
>
Yep.

My fault though - no excuses - I should know this stuff and should have 
checked more carefully.

It's been a fraught day and coming back to take the server apart, screw 
it back together etc etc made me sloppy.

Anyway. The good news is that I let the 2nd dd_rescue finish - typed in 
the command *with* a raid device to work on (doh!) and it worked.

Then I started lvm and that worked.

Then I tried to run xfs_check on the smaller (350Gb) partition - 
oomkiller time.
<Sigh>, nothing's easy is it.
I have 256Mb of RAM and 512Mb swap - I've stopped all other daemons - 
and still it dies...

And to think one of my tasks in all this was to merge the two 
filesystems into one and use xfs rather than reiserfs3.6 - but xfs won't 
even fsck!!!

OK, off to yank some RAM from another machine...

Thanks for the help guys - I appreciate it.

Is there a wiki for mdadm, raid around? I'd like to contribute to it (so 
I can use it next time <grin>)

David