On Tuesday 27 December 2005 11:50 pm, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Are you 100% sure that you didn't do: > > mdadm -Cv -n2 -l1 /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb, etc, etc? > (ie, note lack of subdevice for partition!!!) > It sounds like you created md devices out of whole disks instead of > partitions and overwrote the partition information. I don't *think* > this should be a problem, but I don't 100% know... > > Try this to see if it finds your array: > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb That works! In fact that does indeed find all the data! I then mount it as /home/big2 and the data is still there that I left before. You are a genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What an idiot I am. What does doing mdadm -Cv -n2 -l1 /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb do to the partition tables??? (And why can I still access the data if I messed up the partitions??? very odd). Can you point me at an explanation of the effects of what I did? Every way a person can screw up, it will happen... Mitcehll - 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
