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How to mount
software RAID1
member using
mdadm
by Milosz Galazka on May 8,
2012 and tagged with Debian,
Command-line, System
management, Recovery,
Software RAID

Just a moment ago I connected

my old hard drive and realized
sleeplessbeastie's notes that it was a RAID member.

Personal notes about Linux, $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdd

applications and programming. Disk /dev/sdd: 250.1 GB, 250058268160 byt
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylind
Home Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes
Archives I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 5
Disk identifier: 0x90909090
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$ sudo mkdir /mnt/old_hdd

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$ sudo mount /dev/sdd4 /mnt/old_hdd

mount: unknown filesystem type 'linux_rai

Fortunately I used RAID1 array:

$ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdd4

/dev/sdd4:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : 957e7cb5:bfd41f70:9cb84
Name : milosz-desktop:2
Creation Time : Sat Aug 20 18:48:26 201
Raid Level : raid1
Raid Devices : 2

Avail Dev Size : 419184640 (199.88 GiB 2

Array Size : 419184496 (199.88 GiB 2
Used Dev Size : 419184496 (199.88 GiB 2
Data Offset : 2048 sectors
Super Offset : 8 sectors
sleeplessbeastie's notes State : clean
Device UUID : db8a694f:750a0ded:22a6d
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Checksum : 75dbc3b6 - correct
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Device Role : Active device 1
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About I needed to create md virtual
device using mdadm:
Milosz Galazka
milosz (at) sleeplessbeastie (dot) eu $ sudo mdadm -A -R /dev/md9 /dev/sdd4
mdadm: /dev/md9 has been started with 1 d
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without hassle:

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$ sudo mount /dev/md9 /mnt/old_hdd/

$ mount | grep ^/dev/md9
/dev/md9 on /mnt/old_hdd type ext4 (rw)

After data was moved I

unmounted �le system and
removed md virtual device.

$ sudo umount /mnt/old_hdd

$ sudo mdadm -S /dev/md9
mdadm: stopped /dev/md9

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