Jonathan wrote: > I was already terrified of screwing things up > now I'm afraid of making things worse Adrenalin... makes life worth living there for a sec, doesn't it ;o) > based on what was posted before is this a sensible thing to try? > mdadm -C /dev/md0 -c 32 -n 4 -l 5 missing /dev/etherd/e0.[023] Yes, looks exactly right. > Is what I've done to the superblock size recoverable? I don't think you've done anything at all. I just *don't know* if you have, that's all. Was just trying to say that it wasn't super-cautious of you to begin with, that's all :-). > I don't understand how mdadm --assemble would know what to do, > which is why I didn't try it initially. By giving it --force, you tell it to forcefully mount the array even though it might be damaged. That means including some disks (the freshest ones) that are out of sync. That help? - 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
