As Christian said, specific error message help a lot.
Assume the two devices are hdc and hde,
fdisk -l /dev/hdc
fdisk -l /dev/hde
mdadm -E /dev/hdc
mdadm -E /dev/hde
and my best guess
mdadm --build /dev/md0 --level linear --raid-disks 2 /dev/hdc /dev/hde
fsck -n /dev/md0
(and linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx might be a better mailing list for
this particular sort of problem).
Disk /dev/hdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
[root@node004 root]# fdisk -l /dev/hdc
Disk /dev/hdc: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
[root@node004 root]# mdadm -E /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 00.90.00
UUID : 293be3e8:5a7ac6e7:adefc469:84f8aefb
Creation Time : Fri Jun 23 15:47:10 2006
Raid Level : linear
Device Size : 244198464 (232.89 GiB 250.06 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Fri Jun 23 15:48:43 2006
State : clean, no-errors
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : f790e07f - correct
Events : 0.2
Rounding : 32K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 0 3 64 0 active sync /dev/hdb
0 0 3 64 0 active sync /dev/hdb
1 1 22 0 1 active sync /dev/hdc
[root@node004 root]# mdadm -E /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 00.90.00
UUID : 293be3e8:5a7ac6e7:adefc469:84f8aefb
Creation Time : Fri Jun 23 15:47:10 2006
Raid Level : linear
Device Size : 244198464 (232.89 GiB 250.06 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Fri Jun 23 15:48:43 2006
State : clean, no-errors
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : f790e054 - correct
Events : 0.2
Rounding : 32K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 1 22 0 1 active sync /dev/hdc
0 0 3 64 0 active sync /dev/hdb
1 1 22 0 1 active sync /dev/hdc
[root@node004 root]# mdadm --build /dev/md0 --level linear --raid-disks 2
/dev/hdb /dev/hdc
mdadm: array /dev/md0 built and started.
fsck -n /dev/md0
fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/md0
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
fsck -b 8193 /dev/md0
fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/md0
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
During a recovery attemp today by mistake I created a mirror array
with hdb as the primary and hdc as the secondary. I interrupted the array
creation almost immediately, but part of the hdc was overwritten. However
the array never held more than 70 gbytes of data, so I hope everything is
intact on hdb :/
Thank you all for your kind help:)
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