On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Okay, so I swapped six drives from one machine to another. I was very, > very careful to ensure that the drives were plugged in in the > corresponding order that they'd been plugged in in the first machine. > Now, fdisk shows no partitions in two of my three mirrors. This fills me > with a distinct lack of warmth and fuzziness. /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf > addresses the two (MIA) mirrors with /dev/sd[abef]1 designators, which > can, of course, get jumbled in a transition. Any tips on how to go > forward would be gratefully appreciated -- I *really* don't want to have > to go to backups. > > Thanks! > > -Ken > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > -- > 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 > You did make a new mdadm.conf with the correct devices for each array right? If not try running and seeing if your arrays come up. If they do then copy /tmp/mdadm.conf to /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf mdadm --examine --scan --config=partitions > /tmp/mdadm.conf mdadm --assemble --scan --config=/tmp/mdadm.conf Ryan -- 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