Hi Our suggestion worked out nicely so I could recover the data from the raid. Thanks Hendrik Naumann Am Freitag, 16. Dezember 2005 18:26 schrieben Sie: > 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 :) -- PGP ID 65C92061
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