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From: Robin Hill <robin@robinhill.me.uk>
Subject: Re: Add a spare to a poorly defined raid1
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:44:38 +0000
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On Wed Feb 15, 2012 at 05:51:12 +0530, David Liontooth wrote:

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> Not knowing what I was doing, I created a RAID1 with a single drive and=
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> a spare, as below.
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> I'd like to add the spare to the array. How do I do this without rebootin=
g?
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> Cheers,
> Dave
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> # definitions of existing MD arrays
> ARRAY /dev/md0 level=3Draid1 num-devices=3D1=20
> UUID=3D9921faab:5d93510e:0db287f1:dc103b07
>     spares=3D1
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> # mdadm --detail /dev/md0
> /dev/md0:
>          Version : 0.90
>    Creation Time : Fri Jul 18 14:57:40 2008
>       Raid Level : raid1
>       Array Size : 104320 (101.89 MiB 106.82 MB)
>    Used Dev Size : 104320 (101.89 MiB 106.82 MB)
>     Raid Devices : 1
>    Total Devices : 2
> Preferred Minor : 0
>      Persistence : Superblock is persistent
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>      Update Time : Wed Feb 15 03:37:11 2012
>            State : clean
>   Active Devices : 1
> Working Devices : 2
>   Failed Devices : 0
>    Spare Devices : 1
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>             UUID : 9921faab:5d93510e:0db287f1:dc103b07
>           Events : 0.218
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>      Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
>         0       8        1        0      active sync   /dev/sda1
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>         1       8       17        -      spare   /dev/sdb1
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That's a straightforward one - you just need to increase the number of
active members in the array:

    mdadm --grow /dev/md0 -n 2

Cheers,
    Robin
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