On 11/16/2012 12:23 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > 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... > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Thank you for your reply. What I did ewas the following: mdadm --detail --scan > /etc/mdadm.conf and thhis thankfully recreated /dev/md0 and was able to add the entry into the fstab mount the device and see all my data as I left it. Big whew!! Phil