From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sevrin Robstad Subject: trying to "brute-force" my RAID 5... Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:02:21 +0200 Message-ID: <44BAB76D.9070809@start.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids I have written some posts about this before... My 6 disk RAID 5 broke down because of hardware failure. When I tried to get it up'n'running again I did a --create without any missing disk, which made it rebuild. I have also lost all information about how the old RAID was set up.. I got a friend of mine to make a list of all the 6^6 combinations of dev 1 2 3 4 5 missing, and set it up this way : "mdadm --create -n 6 -l 5 dev1 2 3 4 5 missing ; fdisk -l /dev/md0 ; mdadm --stop /dev/md0" . But a "cat logfile | grep Linux" of the output of this script tells me that on no of these combination does it find a valid "type 83" partition. shouldn't this work ??? Sevrin