on 11/16/2012 9:02 AM Phil Savoie spake the following: > I have a raid 5 built on an opensuse box that I just reinstalled Centos > 6.3 on. Is it possible to rebuild the raid 5 array non-destructively? > > I have googled on this and have found using mdadm --scan --assemble > <list of fd devices>. Will this do it? I sure wouldn't want to lose my > data on the array if possible. > > thank you, > > Phil > It could be possible, but I think I would rather try to back it up with some sort of recovery system first... If the data is VERY critical, I would clone the drives with DD first just to make sure...