From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Justin Stephenson <justin@evensteveninc.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reassemble Raid 6
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:53:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F93C4B.8000909@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <em138f8d3b-69b5-40ed-baf9-c23fb4e7ae1b@littlez>
On 02/10/2014 11:48 AM, Justin Stephenson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have reviewed the Linux Raid Wiki regarding rebuilding and it
> recommended writing a note to the list.
>
> I am running an mdadm raid on CENTOS 6.5 with 6 disks in a Raid 6 off of
> my motherboard's SATA controller.
>
> I added a 7th disk as a spare.
>
> When I rebooted the raid after adding the spare, it would not mount and
> the OS would only boot into recovery mode. I changed my fsck file to
> exclude the raid and can now boot into the GUI.
>
> I have tried to reassemble the array using --assemble and I get the the
> following message:
>
> mdadm: we match both /dev/md/BigBlue:0 and /dev/md0 - cannot decide
> which to use.
Please show the output of your mdadm.conf file, and the complete command
you used to assemble with. Add "-v" to it to show more information.
{There's nothing wrong with your array, just conflicting info in your
configuration file.}
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-10 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-10 16:48 Reassemble Raid 6 Justin Stephenson
2014-02-10 20:53 ` Phil Turmel [this message]
2014-02-11 0:13 ` Re[2]: " Justin Stephenson
2014-02-10 23:02 ` Phil Turmel
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