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From: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch>
Subject: Re: replacing drives
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 19:20:26 +0200
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Robin Hill wrote:
> On Wed May 08, 2013 at 06:05:32 +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote:
>> I'd rather stay on the safe side.. how do I assemble the array if I boot 
>> from a cd?
>>
>> something like:
>>
>> mdadm --scan --assemble --uuid=a26bf396:31389f83:0df1722d:f404fe4c
>>
>> would to the job and let me with a /dev/mdX I will be able to work with 
>> (fsck and resize2fs)?
>>
> That should do it, yes. If not, you can always do it explicitly with:
>     mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sd[abcd]1
> 
> You'd need to double-check what the device names end up as though.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Robin

Thank you. :-)
Robi