Thanks for the insight. Is there any way to bring it back to life not necessarily as a raid, but just back up so I can get to the data and have my license managers working? What if I edit md1 out of the raidtab file? Thanks, Jeff On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Christopher Chan < christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > On Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:09 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > > Jeff Sadino wrote: > >> Do you think I can copy the unknown partition from the second drive > >> onto the first drive and have everything work again? > > > > if there's a md mirror, god knows what will happen when you boot it up > > with both drives present, it oculd decide to mirror the unformatted > > partition to the original, I've seen worse happen when the juju is > > messed with. > > Well, he messed up a stripe. Zero chance of recovery. > > > > > > I think I'd totally wipe the drive you messed with, like zero it. Then > > boot up the system in single user with just the one drive you didn't > > hose, and BACK UP EVERYTHING ON IT TO EXTERNAL SAFE MEDIA. use dump or > > something to do the backup that does a proper inode level backup of each > > volume. then add the wiped/blank drive, and remirror it with the mdadm > > commands to repair the raid, then reboot to normal mode and see if its > > all safe. > > > > Won't apply. He can kiss md1 good bye. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100303/0dfabf40/attachment-0005.html>