On Sunday January 22, lfarkas@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > hi, > is there any way to force to put together a raid5 array? we've to a 7+1 > disks raid5 array (with 7 disks and 1 spare), but it's faild (probably > because of heat). so currently it's 4+3:-( is there any way to force > mdadm to put together the array and hope that we can save at least part > of it's data? > thank you for your help in advance. > yours. You could try the "--force" option... mdadm --assemble /dev/mdX --force /dev/sd[a-h]1 or whatever the device names are. If that doesn't work, you will need to try to recreate the array. Create it degraded (one missing device) using the 6 devices (in their correct positions) that you think are most likely to have good data. NeilBrown - 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
