installed gdisk and it looks like /dev/sdb is damaged, but /dev/sdc is good :) doing a dd on the whole drive to a file on another drive so I have a backup. I'll check back in a couple days when it's done. Regards, George Toft On 2/2/2014 2:58 PM, Matt Graham wrote: >>> # fdisk -l | egrep "GPT|dev" >>> WARNING: fdisk doesn't support GPT. >>> /dev/sdb1 1 267350 2147483647+ ee GPT > >>> # mdadm --assemble --run /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 >>> mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sdb1: No such >>> file or directory > > This is an odd message to get, and probably means that udev didn't > find the device and create it because udev and/or the rescue system's > GPT support is flaking out. Does the kernel in this rescue system > support GPT? "mknod /dev/sdb1 b 8 17" to create it. You may wish to > "mknod /dev/sdc1 8 33" in case the other softRAID-1 disk has better > stuff on it. > > As other people have said, there should be no need to use mdadm to > assemble an array out of RAID-1 partitions. "mount /dev/sdb1 > /mnt/somewhere" should do something useful if the device node and > /mnt/somewhere exist. > > On 2014-02-02 12:57, Michael Butash wrote: >> Use gdisk if/when doing gpt > > That too. (One day, we will forsake our filesystems and break all > bonds of block devices to get a disk larger than 2T for actual > experience with GPT, but today is *not* this day. This day, we *SOLVE > TECH PROBLEMS!!!1!*) > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss