doh! I'm so used to doing mount -oloop that I forgot how much it does for you :) losetup /dev/loop0 /space/sdb2.dd_image mdadm -B /dev/md0 -l linear -n2 /dev/sdc2 /dev/loop0 works fine. Sorry for the noise David David Greaves wrote: >Hi > >First, this is not a raid recovery problem !!! > >I'm recovering a disk failure and for various reasons I've ended up with >a partition that's too small to hold the file system that belongs in it. > >I managed to create a second small partition on a good bit of the >failing disk and use linear mode to concatenate the almost big enough >partition (sdc2) with the temp partition (sdb2) to make a big enough >space to ddrescue the failing data. > >All is now good with 95% of data on the good disk and the small >partition is holding up. However I need to get rid of it ASAP. >So I dd'ed the small partition onto a good filesystem on sdc1. >Now I want to: > >mdadm -B /dev/md0 -l linear -n2 /dev/sdc2 /space/sdb2.dd_image > >but of course mdadm correctly complains that /space/sdb2.dd_image isn't >a block device. > >Does anyone know how I can do this? > > >David > > > -- - 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
