Re: trouble adding spare

[Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman@fastmail.co.uk>]

Max Waterman wrote:
>>
>> If that does not work, clean the drive out manually after removing it 
>> as a spare from the array:
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdi bs=1M
> This is taking forever
I stopped it after about half an hour, hoping that it had made garbage 
of whatever was the problem.

I then added it into the array and it worked as before.

However, it still wasn't added when I rebooted.

...but, there is something different. Now, when I --examine /dev/sdi, it 
gives output for the whole array including 2 spares, which is the end 
result I expect :

 Active Devices : 6
Working Devices : 8
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 2

However, --detail /dev/md2 still denies /dev/sdi exists :

 Active Devices : 6
Working Devices : 7
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 1

What's up?

Max.