Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

2006-10-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
Short summary: It turns out that I must have formatted three of the drives, which is why I only got one listed when I scanned them.  It turns out the one command line: mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdf1 /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdh1 did it perfectly.  I had been doing it without the "1" on th

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

2006-10-17 Thread dtutty
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:21:19PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Tuesday 17 October 2006 11:15, michael wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:07:01 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote > > > > > > > Does anyone have experience rebuilding a mdadm RAID when the config > > > info has been wiped out? (I wouldn't th

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

2006-10-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 17:34, michael wrote: > > In the future, I'll build my own .conf files just to be sure. In > > the long run, I'm just going to find a RAID controller that does > > hardware RAID5, preferably one that's hot swappable, and just > > rebuild the RAID on that. > > > > > I als

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

2006-10-17 Thread michael
> In the future, I'll build my own .conf files just to be sure. In > the long run, I'm just going to find a RAID controller that does > hardware RAID5, preferably one that's hot swappable, and just > rebuild the RAID on that. > > > I also like to run / from a raid array. /boot is a mirror, > >

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

2006-10-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 11:15, michael wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:07:01 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote > > > I have a server with one drive that has the boot and system on it > > and a RAID5 device managed by mdadm. The RAID is made up of 3 hard > > drives with a 4th spare also hooked up. > > >

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

2006-10-17 Thread michael
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:07:01 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote > I have a server with one drive that has the boot and system on it > and a RAID5 device managed by mdadm. The RAID is made up of 3 hard > drives with a 4th spare also hooked up. > > The system drive crashed and I restored it. The problem i