From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: force mdadm Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:58:43 +0100 Message-ID: <43D36563.4010605@bppiac.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids hi, is there any way to force to put together a raid5 array? we've to a 7+1 disks raid5 array (with 7 disks and 1 spare), but it's faild (probably because of heat). so currently it's 4+3:-( is there any way to force mdadm to put together the array and hope that we can save at least part of it's data? thank you for your help in advance. yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"