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Recently my software RAID0 array had a SMART error and so I had to get 2 new drives to create another RAID0 to re-install CentOS 6.

The 2 previous drives were saved; and re-inserted. But I don't know how to re-mount it so that I can grab the data within the drives.

I see the drives within 'fdisk -l', and have determined the following drives to be the old drives. (sda and sdd, are the new ones; but not pasted here)

Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0005159c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 60802 488385536 fd Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0006dd55

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 26 204800 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb2 26 4106 32768000 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb3 4106 5380 10240000 83 Linux /dev/sdb4 5380 60802 445172736 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 5380 60802 445171712 fd Linux raid autodetect

Can anyone guide me on this? It would be highly appreciated, thanks in advance!

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  • Remember to mount read-only, just in case!
    – Rain
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 1:43

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I've not used raid0 before, but assuming this was created using mdadm (ie software raid), you can probably do something like

mdadm --assemble mdX  /dev/disk1 /dev/disk2

This will make the raid available and you can then mount it/recover from the disk.

mount /dev/mdX /mnt

(Obviously replace mdX and disk1 and disk2 with appropriate resource names)

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You can mount individually the drive with (assuming ext4 file system):

mount -t ext4 /dev/sdc1 /mnt

and recover data from the old drive into the new ones.

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  • I think this would work for RAID1, but I can't see how it would work with RAID0, which stripes the information across 2 disks, without redundancy.
    – davidgo
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 1:12
  • You are right Nobblier, you have reassemble the raid as davidgo sugguests
    – cfreire
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 1:18

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