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Re: Can't mount RAID 5: "Can't find ext3 filesystem"



On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:20:57AM +0100, Jose Legido wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:29:12PM -0500, Jose Legido wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:53:54PM -0500, Jose Legido wrote:
> >> >> Hello!
> >> >> I have one IDE hard disk hda with the system (debian testing)
> >> >> I have a RAID5 with devices sda,b,c,d. My raid works fine.
> >> >> One day, I reboot and my hda is converted to sda.
> >> >
> >> > you upgraded your kernel ?  at some point in time the kernel started to
> >> > address sata devices as sd instead of the old way of hd.
> >>
> >> No, I don't upgrade my kernel.
> >
> > anything else change
> >
> >
> >> My changes are made in /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
> >>
> >> >
> >> > start using LABEL or UUID instead of device paths like /dev/hda1.  check
> >> > /etc/fstab and your grub menu if you use grub of lilo
> >>
> >> I change this later
> >>
> >> >
> >> > as for the raid, check out the /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf, make sure your md
> >> > devices are not defined with device, but with UUID's
> >> >
> >> My mdadm.conf
> >> ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=4
> >> UUID=0768075c:5ca2c100:d4d8cd15:f227f389
> >>
> >> How can I know md0 filesystem?
> >
> > what i would do is
> >
> > reboot the system but with the kernel options init=/bin/bash (you can
> > edit a grub stanza at boot up time so no need to make it permanent)
> >
> > then I would have a look at the system from the kernels perspective see
> > what drives are available hd's or sd's. work out the problem from there.
> >
> > Then look at the raid device, I would try and assemble them (not
> > recreate them) and see what the problem is, have a look at dmesg and
> > syslog.
> 
> 
> Too late.... I recreate, there are any diference in assemble and
> recreate? Excuse me my ignorance....

recreate creates a new md device - blank, although there are some
options to make a create look like a assemble.

assemble is what the system does when it put the device together to make
the mdX device


> 
> Thanks!
> 
> >
> > I would work it from there.
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> > Alex
> >> >
> >> >> I loaded an old kernel. Know, when I try to mount my RAID i get this error:
> >> >> #  mount -t ext3 /dev/md0 /mnt/raid/
> >> >>  VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev md0.
> >> >>
> >> >> What can I do?
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks!!!!
> >> >>
> >> >>
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