RE: Vijay - RAID restore question

[Jussi Silvennoinen <jussi_nahant silvennoinen net>]

> Hi,
> 
> Did this , but no data could be seen after mounting /dev/md0 
> 
> > You mean I should create a new md0 device ? 
> > Will it not format the disks ? 
> > 
> > > I had a Redhat box on which I had configured  Software Mirroring
> > > between two disks using mdadm. 
> > >   
> > > Had to reinstall the OS which I did and now I have both the disks on
> > > the same system.  
> > > 
> > > How do I configure mdam so that the DATA from at least one disk is
> not
> > > deleted ? 
> > > If a create a new md0 device will it nor format both the disks ? 
> > > 
> > > I cannot mount them as ext3 file system currently ?

Well then the disks might have been zapped at some point.

What exactly did you do?
You had two disks in the original system and software-raid1 between them.
Then you reinstalled the system and the installer probably noticed the 
underlying raid1 and reused it overwriting any data on them.

Or?

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  Jussi