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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Reconstructing RAID Post 302695721 by tonyaldr on Monday 3rd of September 2012 02:37:34 PM

09-03-2012

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Reconstructing RAID

I am trying to reconstruct a failed 4 disk RAID5 Western Digital ShareSpace device using 3 of the 4 disks connected via USB to an Ubuntu 12.04 machine. I get what seems like a successful re-assemble from -

Code:

mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md2 /dev/sde4 /dev/sdf4 /dev/sdg4
mdadm: /dev/md2 has been started with 3 drives (out of 4).
But then when I try to mount, it fails.  I am logged in as root and when I try to troubleshoot with mdadm, I get odd returns such as -
mdadm --examine /dev/md2
mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/md2.
Also, the system can't seem to find the volume -
vgscan -v
    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
    Wiping internal VG cache
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
    Finding all volume groups
  No volume groups found

I read in some other posts that the WD system uses LVM2.  Could that be the issue?  Here is the output from mdadm --detail
mdadm --detail /dev/md2
/dev/md2:
        Version : 0.90
  Creation Time : Mon Oct 19 10:26:15 2009
     Raid Level : raid5
     Array Size : 5854981248 (5583.75 GiB 5995.50 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 1951660416 (1861.25 GiB 1998.50 GB)
   Raid Devices : 4
  Total Devices : 3
Preferred Minor : 2
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent

    Update Time : Sun Sep  2 15:22:50 2012
          State : clean, degraded 
 Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 3
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

         Layout : left-symmetric
     Chunk Size : 64K

           UUID : 4c4952ae:1477d756:234bdad8:bdaa1368
         Events : 0.9246753

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       8       84        0      active sync   /dev/sdf4
       1       8       68        1      active sync   /dev/sde4
       2       0        0        2      removed
       3       8      100        3      active sync   /dev/sdg4

Here's the result of the mount attempt-
mount -t auto dev/md2 /mnt/raid
mount: special device dev/md2 does not exist

Appreciate any assistance! Thanx!

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sysmsg

sysmsg(7D)							      Devices								sysmsg(7D)

NAME

       sysmsg - system message routing to console devices

SYNOPSIS

       /dev/sysmsg

DESCRIPTION

       The  file  /dev/sysmsg routes output to a variable set of console devices.  Writes to /dev/sysmsg are always directed to the system console
       /dev/console, and are in addition directed to a set of auxiliary console devices managed by consadm(1M).

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ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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SEE ALSO

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