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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software RAID crash > /dev/md0: Invalid argument
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:02:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040916130214.GA21249@percy.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52074.10.0.0.151.1095334249.squirrel@10.0.0.151>

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:30:49AM -0400, Scott Bolander wrote:
>I have a Mandrake 10 server with a 40gb boot drive and a three 200gb disk
>software raid 5 array using reiserfs.  A disk went bad; so i have replaced
>it.
>
>Doing the normal things to get it back up don't work:
>
>[root@server root]#raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdg
....
># cat /etc/raidtab
>raiddev       /dev/md0
>raid-level    5
>chunk-size    128k
>persistent-superblock 1
>nr-raid-disks 3
>    device    /dev/hdg1
>    raid-disk 0
>    device    /dev/hdi1
>    raid-disk 1
>    device    /dev/hdk1
>    raid-disk 2
>
so you replaced the first disk in the array?
raidtools are not capable of handling this.
switch to mdadm
echo "DEVICE partitions" >> /etc/mdadm.conf
mdadm -Esc partitions | grep ARRAY >> /etc/mdadm.conf
mdadm -ARs
mdadm -a /dev/md0 /dev/hdg1
mv /etc/raidtab /etc/raidtab.FOOBAR (this is important)

L.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-16 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-16 11:30 Software RAID crash > /dev/md0: Invalid argument Scott Bolander
2004-09-16 13:02 ` Luca Berra [this message]
2004-09-16 13:35   ` Gordon Henderson
2004-09-16 14:57     ` Luca Berra
2004-09-17  0:37     ` Neil Brown
2004-09-17  1:07       ` Scott Bolander
2004-09-16 16:40 ` Guy

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