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From: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
To: mwaterman@jingmei.org
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shuffled disks by mistake
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:39:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42305C22.7070406@steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <423056F1.2020403@fastmail.co.uk>

Max Waterman wrote:

> I have 6 WD800Jb disk drives. I used 4 of them in a RAID5 (using the 
> whole disk - no partitions) array.

> I have mixed them all up, and now want to get some data off the array.

> How best to find out which drives were in the array?

put them in a linux box and run "mdadm -E <disk>" on each disk -- that 
will tell you which ones have superblocks and all the details of those 
superblocks

--
Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-10 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-10 14:17 shuffled disks by mistake Max Waterman
2005-03-10 14:39 ` Paul Clements [this message]
2005-03-10 14:40 ` seth vidal

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