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

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?

2007-05-09 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 handy at

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 without any

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

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 following