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From: Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk>
Subject: [SOLVED] Re: Rebuild after a drive replacement
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:56:07 +0100
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On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 19:04 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:


> So: you might need to repartition the drive and make hde5 a
> little bigger.

Yup, that was precisely it. Rebooted to refresh the updated partition
table, ran  mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/hde5 and it's happily rebuilding
as I write. Now I'll be a little better armed when the next drive fails
(smartctl is already showing the signs...)

Hurrah!

Cheers,
Gavin.