On Wednesday April 19, k_schricker@xxxxxxx wrote: > I have a raid5 configuration with 4 disks, of which all were active. My > system froze due to a separate issue (firewire), so I had to power cycle. > In the past, I've always been able to recover with fsck on /dev/md0, however > this time I was not, and I am unable to re-assemble the array now. > > I'm really hoping someone can help me with this. I've been googling and > reading the mdadm manpage for 3 days and getting nowhere. > > After booting, I get 3 active disks and one faulty. Theoretically with > raid5 I should be able to recover from this, right? :) When I add it back > to the array, it changes to "spare rebuilding". However it lies: no Rebuild > Status ever shows up (and I let it run overnight). Hmmm... there is certainly room for removing confusion from that "mdadm -D" is reporting. However what you want to do it: mdadm -S /dev/md0 mdadm -A /dev/md0 --force /dev/sd[abd] mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdv 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
