Woops! On 01/20/2015 01:28 PM, Phil Turmel wrote: > Hi Wesley, > > On 01/19/2015 06:01 PM, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > >> I was in the middle of a reshape of this 4-disk raid5 when something >> rebooted the computer. The system seems otherwise fine, and I suspect >> someone in the house. >> >> What is the correct next step? Should I try --run ? I would obviously >> prefer not to lose the data on this array. I expect that the reshape >> was NOT complete, so just recreating the array will probably corrupt >> its contents. >> >> Kernel version 3.17.8 and mdadm version 3.3.2. > > There have been many bug fixes to mdadm since that kernel was retired. > You should temporarily boot a current liveCD (my favorite is > systemrescuecd) and do "mdadm -Afv /dev/mdX /dev/sdX ..." I misread that kernel version. It's relatively current. Hmmm. I'd still try a liveCD with 3.18.x or 3.19. > Show us the output of that if it doesn't work (it should resume your > reshape). This still holds. :-) 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