>> After cloning the partition of the 1.5TB disk to a replacement 500, it >> wouldn't assemble as it had a different UUID. > > Is this new Drive 500TB of data. > I cloned a failing 500GB drive to 1.5TB drive using dd rescure and then to clone it back to a 500GB drive I dd'd the partition because it was a smaller drive. >> >> So I tried assembling with assume clean and the first time I got >> mount: /dev/md0: can't read superblock > > How did you copy the super block. > Not sure what you mean there? Which superblock? >> >> So I tried a different order and got >> mount: Structure needs cleaning >> >> And then trying the first order again I got >> mdadm: failed to open /dev/sdp1 after earlier success - aborting > > did you run fsck after booting you could set up that. > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-force-fsck-on-the-next-reboot-or-boot-seque > nce/ Not sure why this will be helpful? There's not an independent file system on each md device is there? Iain -- 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
