From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mark Cuss" Subject: Re: How to force a spare drive to take over in a RAID5? Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:03:45 -0600 Message-ID: <006301c59e8e$40d235f0$ab0e10ac@pinchy> References: <45138.213.188.237.106.1123086677.squirrel@localhost><20050804195853.0866ade9.akpm@osdl.org><34082.213.188.237.106.1123228569.squirrel@localhost><20050805010236.12d811ff.akpm@osdl.org><006301c599ca$69410700$ab0e10ac@pinchy><42F5F0B0.3050105@dgreaves.com><012701c59c62$3db09d40$ab0e10ac@pinchy><1123540166.17810.1.camel@star2.austin.ibm.com><00b301c59d1b$5d5645a0$ab0e10ac@pinchy> <17147.9289.214312.837092@cse.unsw.edu.au> Reply-To: "Mark Cuss" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Oh jeez how obvious - I guess I should've RTFM'd with a little more attention to detail - sorry 'bout the extremely obvious question! Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Brown" To: "Mark Cuss" Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:11 AM Subject: Re: How to force a spare drive to take over in a RAID5? > On Tuesday August 9, mcuss@cdlsystems.com wrote: >> Hmm - Okay. If I do that, I get "/dev/sdr1 does not appear to be an md >> device". If I add --force with this it doesn't seem to matter. >> > ... >> From: "Mike Tran" >> To: >> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 4:29 PM >> Subject: Re: How to force a spare drive to take over in a RAID5? >> >> >> > You're on the right track :) mdadm --fail /dev/sdr should do. > > Ofcourse, What Mike meant was > mdadm /dev/md4 --fail /dev/sdr > > NeilBrown > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >