On 03/14/2013 10:27 AM, Nikolay Kichukov wrote: > Hi all, > > We are trying to recover a broken raid 0. It consisted of 4 raid > devices. One of them got the metadata/superblock zeroed and now the raid > cannot assemble. > > OS: Gentoo Linux > > My colleague will be able to provide more information regarding kernel > version and mdadm version. > > Is there a way to copy the superblock/metadata from one of the remaining > drives and edit it prior to placing it on the zeroed drive so that the > raid can be assembled? > > Any hints and pointers are welcomed. Is it possible to fix the raid in > the first place? If yes, then how do we locate the superblock/metadata > that needs to be copied and edited from one of the raid member devices? Start by showing the output of "mdadm -E /dev/sdX" for all of the other member devices or partitions. It's likely to be possible to fix your problem. Phil -- 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