On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 13:36 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 23:44:10 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: > > On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 02:42 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > in your case > > > > > > sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sdc > > > > > > of course ;) > > > > One of the disks had a GPT partition table which I was eventually able > > to get rid of with gdisk (emerge -av gptfdisk). > > > > I'm close. I had a 2.7TiB RAID5 array using genkernal, comprising three > > 1.5TB disks, using the commands > > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 > > --raid-devices=3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 > > > > mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf > > > > I formatted this array as an xfs filesystem. > > > > After reboot, however, /dev/md0 is still there, but I get a 'can't read > > superblock' error. > > > > What am I missing? > > have you set the type to linux raid autodetect? > > have you tried mdadm --assemble? > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 didn't make any difference. Where do I set the type?
Thanks Jeff
