Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 4 authors, 2013-02-11

Re: help please, can't mount/recover raid 5 array

From: Daniel Sanabria <hidden>
Date: 2013-02-11 16:39:52

Sure,

Thanks again Mikael.

Daniel

On 11 February 2013 16:30, Mikael Abrahamsson [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Daniel Sanabria wrote:
quoted
Thanks a million Guys !!! I re-created the RAID and fsck it and it's
mounting fine now. The array is my /home partition and I can't see any
significant losses. But I'm still not sure what happened, I mean what
consideration should I take next time I upgrade?

First of all: --create --assume-clean is a huge big enormous hammer. It
shouldn't be used unless absolutely necessary, when all other options are
exhausted.

I am not aware of any gotchas when upgrading, I have done it numerous times,
even moved array drives between machines, and it's worked well so far. From
your information there isn't really any way to tell what happened.

So best way before next upgrade is to save mdadm --examine and hope it works
properly (it should). If it doesn't, please send an email to the list with
as much information as possible (mdadm --examine, dmesg etc) and see where
that leads before using the big hammer.


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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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