On Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:09 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > Jeff Sadino wrote: >> Do you think I can copy the unknown partition from the second drive >> onto the first drive and have everything work again? > > if there's a md mirror, god knows what will happen when you boot it up > with both drives present, it oculd decide to mirror the unformatted > partition to the original, I've seen worse happen when the juju is > messed with. Well, he messed up a stripe. Zero chance of recovery. > > I think I'd totally wipe the drive you messed with, like zero it. Then > boot up the system in single user with just the one drive you didn't > hose, and BACK UP EVERYTHING ON IT TO EXTERNAL SAFE MEDIA. use dump or > something to do the backup that does a proper inode level backup of each > volume. then add the wiped/blank drive, and remirror it with the mdadm > commands to repair the raid, then reboot to normal mode and see if its > all safe. > Won't apply. He can kiss md1 good bye. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos