On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:44:11 +1100, "Alex Samad" <a...@samad.com.au> said: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:45:24PM -0800, whollyg...@letterboxes.org > wrote: > > > > I wonder if that would have helped with the larger drives. Too late:) > > The smaller drives shouldn't have been bad. All I did to them was fail > > once you fail them they are marked as failed, plus if you did them one > by one they would have different event id and be out of sync :(
Hmm, I've already recreated the array with the larger drives and restored the filesystem from backups, but I think I will try your --assume-clean on the smaller drives to see if I can recover them. Could be a useful little thing to have some practice with. Thanks for the info. Bit by bit it's helping me to understand how md works (and how to interpret the man page:) Cheers -- whollyg...@letterboxes.org -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org