Re: Requesting assistance recovering RAID-5 array

Adam Goryachev
2020-04-03T20:13:56Z

On 4/4/20 05:43, Phil Turmel wrote:
>
> On 4/3/20 2:42 PM, Daniel Jones wrote:
>> After the "--create missing /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1"  and the
>> fsck, is "mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb" the correct syntax
>> for attempting to add?
>
> You can leave out "--manage".  But yes.

I was mostly following this, but might have missed something here so
this is just a suggestion to double check....

If you are trying to use partitions instead of whole devices (to prevent
this happening again in future), then shouldn't you use:

mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1

ie, sdb1 not sdb....

Regards,
Adam