On Monday July 17, quackyo@xxxxxxxx wrote: > I have written some posts about this before... My 6 disk RAID 5 broke > down because of hardware failure. When I tried to get it up'n'running again > I did a --create without any missing disk, which made it rebuild. I have > also lost all information about how the old RAID was set up.. > > I got a friend of mine to make a list of all the 6^6 combinations of dev > 1 2 3 4 5 missing, and set it up this way : > > "mdadm --create -n 6 -l 5 dev1 2 3 4 5 missing ; fdisk -l /dev/md0 ; > mdadm --stop /dev/md0" . > But a "cat logfile | grep Linux" of the output of this script tells me > that on no of these combination does it find a valid "type 83" partition. > > shouldn't this work ??? No. What are you expecting fdisk to tell you? fdisk lists partitions and I suspect you didn't have any partitions on /dev/md0 More likely you want something like fsck -n -f /dev/md0 and see which one produces the least noise. 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
