0

When I go to bring up the array with mdadm, it complains I don't have enough components to start it. This makes sense, since RAID5 normally takes a minimum of three disks.. but I don't want to buy another 2TB drive with prices what they are at the moment.. I just want to start it in degraded mode, get my data off of it, then use them as separate drives, copying the truly important stuff to both of them :)

1 Answer 1

0

Great news.. I was able to answer my own question.

As much as the term scared me, I finally tried: mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0 /sda1 /sdd1

and I was rewarded with the message: mdadm: /dev/md0 has been started with 2 drives (out of 3)

Hope this is useful to someone else.. in related news, the wikipedia article on mdadm (as of 2011/12/11) actually is one of the better resources out there for troubleshooting RAID mishaps.

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .