On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 16:41 -0400, Christopher K. Johnson wrote: > Not weird given that the 3 block devices used by md2 are not partitions, > but the entire drives. Damn. I never noticed that I did that. I wish mdadm had thrown out warnings when I originally set it up. Or, maybe it did I ignored them. Double damn. > I cannot recommend exactly how to solve this since I don't know what you > have on md2, nor what backup options you have. So I don't know whether > you need to boot in rescue to do this. But I would recommend you backup > md2, deconstruct it, create a single large partition on each of sdb, > sdd, sde, of type linux raid autodetect, and construct a new md2 using > those sdb1, sdd1, and sde1 partitions, then restore the data. I use BackupPC, which writes to an external USB 500GB drive. I trust BackupPC, though I sometimes wonder if my back ups are good. I'll probably rsync the data to md1, and then do what you've suggested. Thanks for the help! Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.27.35-170.2.94.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 19:43:14 up 3:57, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.14, 0.09 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
