On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 06:45, Hendrik Naumann wrote: > Hi > > I have a Linux-Software-Raid5 consisting of three partitions (hda2, > hde2 and hdf2). After a failure of hdf I replaced the disk and added > hdf2 into the raid again. During the resynchronization process hda > broke down. > > I am not completely shure how much of the synchronization > was already done, but I think it was quite at the end, because the > gzipped dd-image of hdf2 and hde2 have very similar sizes. > > mdadm shows hde2 as a active, clean disk within the raid and hdf2 as a > clean spare disk. In the Software-Raid-Howto it was stated that > rewriting the superblocks (I suspect hdf2 to clean active) could be a > possibility to regain some data from the Raid. > > How is this possible with mdadm? Or is there some other tool for > manipulation the superblocks? > > Many thanks in advance > > Hendrik Naummann > > PS. Please add a CC hn75@xxxxxx because up to now I am no subscriber > to this list. Since the recovery did not finish, I would do the followings: mdadm --examine /dev/hde2 to display the raid5 configuration and note the chunksize, parity layout, disks order,.. Recreate the array using mdadm -C with "missing" keyword Mount the raid5 array read-only (hope that it will mount :) -- Mike T. - 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
