On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:46:43 -0400, Jim Paris <jim@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And failing everything, you could (maybe) clone the array-disk to the empty > > smaller one, run fsck to fix the partition size (but I'm not totally sure it > > does, so that remains doubtful), reverse the roles of the two disks and then > > add the -now free- larger disk to the array. But that would be a last resort. > > I cannot vouch for how md copes with the few missing sectors, and neither how > > the filesystem reacts, so you'd better not try that without good testing. > > Or just do this same thing at the filesystem level. > > Right now you have md0 with one missing disk. Use your new disk to > create md1 with one missing disk. Create filesystem on md1, and copy > files with e.g. tar, rsync, etc. Then get rid of md0 and add that > drive to md1. > > -jim > Thanks for all the info and the suggestions. The key factor here was that I could not just build an array with one disk containing the data and one unformatted disk and hope they would sync up. I followed Jim's advice successfully ... except that mdadm reports that the new array is State: dirty. But at least the data is accessible once again! Kristina - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
