From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wols Lists Subject: Re: RAID5 up, but one drive removed, one says spare building, what now? Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:22:22 +0000 Message-ID: <5A0634AE.5090002@youngman.org.uk> References: <5A058E25.1020608@youngman.org.uk> <34b72bc9-9a72-3143-bd1e-d00f90493d04@turmel.org> <3fa05723-8275-8840-7fbc-397801fa17de@turmel.org> <0B536D2C-1919-4704-94D3-6EB733B73E9D@gmail.com> <8822270a-a88b-fe9a-daae-22df155f5062@turmel.org> <66C593A3-D4BD-4B80-AF7D-B1693F8271CA@gmail.com> <5A063392.4060809@youngman.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5A063392.4060809@youngman.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jun-Kai Teoh Cc: Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 10/11/17 23:17, Wols Lists wrote: > If you take the wiki slowly, you'll hopefully grasp what's going on. > > https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid#Overview > > Especially the bit about setting up a new system or converting an > existing system. Okay, they're not at all about what you're doing, but > if you work your way through and get what's happening there straight in > your head, you'll then be able to apply it to your setup. > > Note that they're written from my perspective as a gentoo user, so I > have to do everything from scratch - boot into a live/rescue CD, and > then configure/setup the system from there. Just checked those two pages (should have done that before I hit send :-) and they're not quite as appropriate as I thought. Still worth reading, though. But that's given me an idea for more detail in the wiki, so this should lead to further improvement :-) Cheers, Wol