--- Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday July 19, alex14641@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Situation: > > > > I accidentally killed the power to my 5-disk RAID 5 array. I then powered > > it back up and rebooted the system. After reboot, however, I got the follow- > > ing error when trying to assemble the array: > > > > mdadm -A -amd /dev/md0 /dev/sd[a-e] > > mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 2 drives - not enough to start the array. > > > > I had read somewhere that it's possible to recover an array using the -C > > option to mdadm. Unfortunately, I didn't specify 'missing', so instead of > > recovering, it's resyncing. > > --assemble --force is worth try first and is much safer. > > > > > Is there any way to recover the original data? > > Well, if you got all the right devices in the right order, then your > data should be fine. If not, I hope you have good backups, because > they are your only hope. > > NeilBrown > So do I just keep doing mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/.... using different permutations of the devices until my data shows up? I code, therefore I am __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - 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
