fred smith wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:03:27AM -0700, Nataraj wrote: > >> fred smith wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the additional information. >>> >>> I'll try backing up everything this weekend then will take a stab at it. >>> >>> someone said earlier that the differing raid superblocks were probably >>> the cause of the misassignment in the first place. but I have no clue >>> how the superblocks could have become messed up, can any of you comment >>> on that? willl I need to hack at that issue, too, before I can succeed? >>> >>> thanks again! >>> >>> >>> >>>> Nataraj >>>> >>>> >> I would first try adding the drives back in with: >> >> mdadm /dev/mdN -a /dev/sdXn >> >> Again, this is after having stopped the bogus md arrays. >> > > Nataraj, that worked fine, didn't need to --force it. Now I'm back to > having two devices in md0 and two in md1, and they're the RIGHT two! :) > Put the box in single-user mode to do the work, then after the array > finished resyncing, rebooted and it came up with the right two md devices. > > I appreciate your tutoring me on this, you've been most helpful. > > Thanks a bunch! > > Oh, can you refer me to any good documentation on how to admin a > software raid system? One aimed for people, like me, who are > computer literate, but have never trained as a sysadmin, and who > don't know much about RAID... > > thanks again! > > Fred > Hi Fred, You might try this one, since it seems to be one of the more up to date: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid Also the mdadm man page and running "mdadm --help". Oh, and there's this, however, some of the pages just happen to be in Chinese... http://wiki.centos.org/Search?action=fullsearch&titlesearch=1&value=raid <http://wiki.centos.org/Search?action=fullsearch&titlesearch=1&value=raid> Nataraj Nataraj _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos