From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Lindsell Subject: Re: Am I dead? NO! (yaay!) Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 13:42:45 +0000 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20021202133235.069a5c98@core> References: <20021202125611.GD6155@unthought.net> <5.1.1.6.0.20021202124116.0699afe8@core> <5.1.1.6.0.20021202114409.06af4530@core> <5.1.1.6.0.20021202114409.06af4530@core> <5.1.1.6.0.20021202124116.0699afe8@core> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20021202131942.0697d690@core> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Thanks to Jakob I have my data back. . Just for the record I made a raidtab with the following:- raiddev /dev/md5 raid-level 5 nr-raid-disks 3 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 nr-spare-disks 0 device /dev/sda2 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb2 raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdc2 raid-disk 2 and ran "raidstart /dev/md5". Looking in the syslog showed that the raiddev was wrong - needed to be /dev/md2. So I corrected that and ran "mkraid --really-force /dev/md2" The array now corrected I was able to mount the root filesystem and copy the original raidtab to my repair disk and run mkraid on the other partitions. I now have my data. Finally, what could have caused this? I'm pretty confident about the hardware (I've not replaced anything yet) - could a power outage have broken my arrays? many thanks nick.