hi, I created a raid5 array with 6 parts but one "missing", thus with 5 drives. I stuck some data on it and all was well. I rebooted and it didn't exist. I think I needed to add something to mdadm.conf or whatnot, but anyway. I tried to manually assemble it but it told me that one of the drives had no superblock. I did mdadm --examine /dev/hda2 (the partition in question) and it tells me: mdadm: /dev/hda2 is too small for md. I don't really understand superblocks at all. I google'd around and saw some suggestions that such things might be caused by corrupt superblocks, really very little information though. Since my data is backed up, I decided to try mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/hda2 althogh I am not sure whether that will just certainly break things. I get the same "too small for md". I tried everything with --force as well with no change. The partition in question, btw, is 220GB. Any ideas? Thanks -Jared - 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
