On Wednesday July 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Situation: > > I accidentally killed the power to my 5-disk RAID 5 array. I then powered > it back up and rebooted the system. After reboot, however, I got the follow- > ing error when trying to assemble the array: > > mdadm -A -amd /dev/md0 /dev/sd[a-e] > mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 2 drives - not enough to start the array. > > I had read somewhere that it's possible to recover an array using the -C > option to mdadm. Unfortunately, I didn't specify 'missing', so instead of > recovering, it's resyncing.
--assemble --force is worth try first and is much safer. > > Is there any way to recover the original data? Well, if you got all the right devices in the right order, then your data should be fine. If not, I hope you have good backups, because they are your only hope. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
