From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Subject: Re: Raid 1, can't get the second disk added back in. Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:49:07 -0500 Message-ID: <47810683.80804@fayettedigital.com> References: <477FAAAC.2090107@fayettedigital.com> <20080105210002.t5syxhjahwocks4g@cakebox.homeunix.net> <4780B7C2.3030909@fayettedigital.com> <20080106173106.x7wngh3ccgwwsk00@cakebox.homeunix.net> Reply-To: jim@fayettedigital.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080106173106.x7wngh3ccgwwsk00@cakebox.homeunix.net> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Nagilum Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Nagilum wrote: > ----- Message from jim@fayettedigital.com --------- > Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:13:06 -0500 > From: Jim > >> root@chinaberry:~# mdadm /dev/md0 --re-add /dev/hdb5 >> mdadm: Cannot open /dev/hdb5: Device or resource busy > > Have you tried stopping (-S) /dev/md0 and then re-assemble the array > (-A)? Yes, I did that yesterday. Something is holding on to /dev/hdb5, 'cause I got the device busy message from that attempt too. I think I'm going to remove the partition and see what happens. Thanks, Jim.