From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: RAID5 - 2nd drive died whilst waiting for RMA Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:54:10 +0000 Message-ID: <41968282.6060306@dgreaves.com> References: <200411132039.iADKdDN07474@www.watkins-home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200411132039.iADKdDN07474@www.watkins-home.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Guy Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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. , 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 ) David