On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:23:48AM +0200, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: >> The key thing that you need to do when trying to recover from RAID >> setups where you are missing one or more disks is to align the pieces >> so they are in their original places, with the missing pieces replaced >> with a /dev/zero device. > > Hm, interesting, I did not consider that yet. Thanks for the links, I'll > have a look. But again: I don't really care for the data, I was just > playing around and wondering why it reported "Device or resource busy" > when I expected something like "unable to find superblock". That will only happen if someone else has opened the device with O_EXCL. Are you sure you didn't ^Z an e2fsck or some such and then started a second one, or some such? Is this repeatable? - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
