Re: Recovery of software RAID5 using FC6 rescue?

2007-05-16 Thread Mark A. O'Neil
I want to thank everyone for their suggestions. After much fiddling about I eventually pushed things beyond repair, so had to start from scratch after all - no big I had a backup so that is good. So I took the opportunity to play a bit with mdadm (adding, removing, repairing, etc) and thi

Re: Recovery of software RAID5 using FC6 rescue?

2007-05-09 Thread Nix
On 9 May 2007, Michael Tokarev spake thusly: > Nix wrote: >> On 8 May 2007, Michael Tokarev told this: >>> BTW, for such recovery purposes, I use initrd (initramfs really, but >>> does not matter) with a normal (but tiny) set of commands inside, >>> thanks to busybox. So everything can be done wit

Re: Recovery of software RAID5 using FC6 rescue?

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Tokarev
Nix wrote: > On 8 May 2007, Michael Tokarev told this: >> BTW, for such recovery purposes, I use initrd (initramfs really, but >> does not matter) with a normal (but tiny) set of commands inside, >> thanks to busybox. So everything can be done without any help from >> external "recovery CD". Very

Re: Recovery of software RAID5 using FC6 rescue?

2007-05-09 Thread Nix
On 8 May 2007, Michael Tokarev told this: > BTW, for such recovery purposes, I use initrd (initramfs really, but > does not matter) with a normal (but tiny) set of commands inside, > thanks to busybox. So everything can be done without any help from > external "recovery CD". Very handy at times,

Re: Recovery of software RAID5 using FC6 rescue?

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
Mark A. O'Neil wrote: > Hello, > > I hope this is the appropriate forum for this request if not please > direct me to the correct one. > > I have a system running FC6, 2.6.20-1.2925, software RAID5 and a power > outage seems to have borked the file structure on the RAID. > > Boot shows the follo

Recovery of software RAID5 using FC6 rescue?

2007-05-08 Thread Mark A. O'Neil
Hello, I hope this is the appropriate forum for this request if not please direct me to the correct one. I have a system running FC6, 2.6.20-1.2925, software RAID5 and a power outage seems to have borked the file structure on the RAID. Boot shows the following disks: sda #first di