[CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed May 20 17:29:04 UTC 2009


on 5-20-2009 9:34 AM Daniel Bird spake the following:
>> Are you sure that all the disks are in the same position that they were in
>> when removed from the snap server?
> The drives are the same position , i.e hda is hda and hdb is hdb etc,
> but hdc and hdd were hde and hdg previously. Does that matter?
>>  If you fail with the original drives, you might render the array
>> unrecoverable.
>>   
> dd is a good idea. I'll dd these disks and try with the images.
> 

If you DD the entire drive, here is a howto I found for mounting the partition
you want from the image.

http://www.nerdparadise.com/tech/linux/diskbackup/



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