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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: "RANSOM, Tony" <tony.ransom@baesystems.com>
Cc: "'linux-raid@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problem rebuild raid 1 replacement disk
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:51:47 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120220215147.7684efda@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <807765805CA0DF48898D4C016E982BFC065A6D9BF6@MWLSVEXM002.au.baesystems.com>

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On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:45:24 +1030 "RANSOM, Tony"
<tony.ransom@baesystems.com> wrote:

> Neil,
> 
> >Yes.
> >Somehow both sdb and sdb3 have a superblock for the same array.  Must have
> >been a typo somewhere I suspect.
> >You should remove the one you don't want:
> 
> >  mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb
> 
> >then it should all work nicely again.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, the above command gave the following error :
> 
> root@server2:~# mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb
> mdadm: Couldn't open /dev/sdb for write - not zeroing
> 
> Do you know how to work around?

Presumably this is because sdb3 is active in the array.  This keeps sdb busy.
If this is the current situation then adding --force to the command should
make it work.

Otherwise you might need to remove sdb from the array first.

NeilBrown

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-20 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-20  4:11 Problem rebuild raid 1 replacement disk RANSOM, Tony
2012-02-20  5:29 ` NeilBrown
2012-02-20  8:28   ` RANSOM, Tony
2012-02-20  9:11     ` NeilBrown
2012-02-20  9:15       ` RANSOM, Tony
2012-02-20 10:51         ` NeilBrown [this message]
2012-02-20 12:18           ` RANSOM, Tony
2012-02-21 10:09           ` RANSOM, Tony

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