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From: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
To: "Sean H." <silverwraithii@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re-assembling a software RAID in which device names have changed.
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:19:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FBD35F.1010205@ziu.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa037c550804081206w6aa4db7r9b9f22202c4cca38@mail.gmail.com>

Sean H. wrote:
>
>  Now, today, I wanted to determine which disk was failing, so I
> unmounted my array and unplugged drives - Specifically, three. The
> third was the culprit, and I plugged the drives back in and rebooted.
>

Just to be sure - did you do that on live array ? (it kinda looks like 
you did)

> 
> Below the first command, and separated by ten hyphens is --detail
> /dev/md0 which shows that the remaining device is marked "removed" and
> not "failed".
> 
> I thank you for your help thusfar - You've allowed me to mount the
> array and access my data. However, I would very much like to get my
> RAID 5 back to non-degraded status ASAP.
> 

You can add the drive/partition with --add option to the existing array.

It will start rebuilding then, and it can take a while.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-08 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-08  4:34 Re-assembling a software RAID in which device names have changed Sean H.
2008-04-08 17:25 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-04-08 17:55   ` Sean H.
2008-04-08 18:37     ` Michael Tokarev
2008-04-08 19:06       ` Sean H.
2008-04-08 20:19         ` Michal Soltys [this message]

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