Re: Requesting assistance recovering RAID-5 array

Phil Turmel
2020-04-01T15:38:25Z

On 4/1/20 11:21 AM, Daniel Jones wrote:
> Hi Phil, Wols,

> A quick question on what I'm doing?
>
> As per Phil's suggestion to put the array inside partitions, I have
> created partitions inside each of /dev/mapper/sd[bcde]. The gdisk
> operations end with the message:
>
> Warning: The kernel is still using the old partition table.
> The new table will be used at the next reboot.
> The operation has completed successfully.
>
> My question is how to get the kernel to recognize the
> /dev/mapper/sd[bcde]1 partitions I have created? Rebooting doesn't do
> anything as the overlay loop files aren't something that gets
> recognized during boot.

I would create the partition tables once on the live disks. Then make
overlays for the partitions on each test.

Phil