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From: Benjamin ESTRABAUD <be@mpstor.com>
To: d c <c866e866e@gmail.com>, "Admin@DH" <admin@digitallyhosted.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More information on linux raid partition problem
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:26:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C5FED9.9080001@mpstor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM1AHSwBhjcaQ5dOfu7nfYQGtwQ0RGzGuFdo6ALB44aArGPLSQ@mail.gmail.com>

sdd2 must be opened by something already. Maybe a RAID is already 
assembled with that particular device? What does "cat /proc/mdstat" outputs?

Otherwise "lsof|grep sdd" might help to find out what has a open handle 
on that drive.

Regards,
Ben.

On 18/02/16 17:17, d c wrote:
> Thank you for the reply.
>
> Yes that was just a typo when I rerun the command for the e-mail.
>
> Originally I typed it correct (and that does not work either)
>
>       mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sdd2 /dev/sde2
>            mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sdd2: Device or resource busy
>            mdadm: /dev/sdd2 has no superblock - assembly aborted
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Admin@DH <admin@digitallyhosted.com> wrote:
>> You typed:
>>
>> mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/hdd2 /dev/hde2
>>
>> It should be:
>>
>> mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sdd2 /dev/sde2
>>
>> Was that just a typo?
>>
>>
>> On 18/02/2016 16:12, d c wrote:
>>
>> For anyone who can help me here is some more information on my linux
>> raid partition problem.
>>
>> As stated before, I only have two disks from a three disk raid 5.
>>
>> When I try:
>>
>>       mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/hdd2 /dev/hde2
>>
>> I get the following error:
>>
>>       mdadm: cannot open device /dev/hdd2: No such file or directory
>>       mdadm: /dev/hdd2 has no superblock - assembly aborted
>>
>> When I do a mdadm examine, I get a different number of events:
>>
>>       mdadm --examine /dev/sdd2 | egrep Event
>>            Events : 60541
>>       mdadm --examine /dev/sde2 | egrep Event
>>            Events : 60544
>>
>> Also mdadm examine gives different States:
>>
>>       mdadm --examine /dev/sdd2 | egrep State
>>            State : active
>>       mdadm --examine /dev/sde2 | egrep State
>>            State : clean
>>
>> But mdadm shows that their Magic and UUID numbers are the same.
>>
>> Can anyone give suggestions on how I can repair this?
>>
>> Here are the full mdadm --examine outputs:
>>
>> mdadm --examine  /dev/sdd2
>> /dev/sdd2:
>>            Magic : a92b4efc
>>          Version : 0.90.00
>>             UUID : 1787919b:a8648f43:ae108b15:09b5fb69
>>    Creation Time : Fri Jan  7 17:54:08 2005
>>       Raid Level : raid5
>>    Used Dev Size : 48194816 (45.96 GiB 49.35 GB)
>>       Array Size : 96389632 (91.92 GiB 98.70 GB)
>>     Raid Devices : 3
>>    Total Devices : 2
>> Preferred Minor : 126
>>
>>      Update Time : Tue May  1 15:55:58 2012
>>            State : active
>>   Active Devices : 2
>> Working Devices : 2
>>   Failed Devices : 0
>>    Spare Devices : 0
>>         Checksum : b53ef3cf - correct
>>           Events : 60541
>>
>>           Layout : left-symmetric
>>       Chunk Size : 128K
>>
>>        Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
>> this     2       8       66        2      active sync   /dev/sde2
>>
>>     0     0       0        0        0      removed
>>     1     1       8       50        1      active sync   /dev/sdd2
>>     2     2       8       66        2      active sync   /dev/sde2
>>
>> mdadm --examine  /dev/sde2
>> /dev/sde2:
>>            Magic : a92b4efc
>>          Version : 0.90.00
>>             UUID : 1787919b:a8648f43:ae108b15:09b5fb69
>>    Creation Time : Fri Jan  7 17:54:08 2005
>>       Raid Level : raid5
>>    Used Dev Size : 48194816 (45.96 GiB 49.35 GB)
>>       Array Size : 96389632 (91.92 GiB 98.70 GB)
>>     Raid Devices : 3
>>    Total Devices : 2
>> Preferred Minor : 126
>>
>>      Update Time : Tue May  1 15:56:20 2012
>>            State : clean
>>   Active Devices : 1
>> Working Devices : 1
>>   Failed Devices : 1
>>    Spare Devices : 0
>>         Checksum : b53fe060 - correct
>>           Events : 60544
>>
>>           Layout : left-symmetric
>>       Chunk Size : 128K
>>
>>        Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
>> this     1       8       50        1      active sync   /dev/sdd2
>>
>>     0     0       0        0        0      removed
>>     1     1       8       50        1      active sync   /dev/sdd2
>>     2     2       0        0        2      faulty removed
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-18 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-18 16:12 More information on linux raid partition problem d c
     [not found] ` <56C5F6A4.4040205@digitallyhosted.com>
2016-02-18 17:17   ` d c
2016-02-18 17:26     ` Benjamin ESTRABAUD [this message]
2016-02-18 18:03       ` d c
2016-02-19 14:40         ` George Rapp
2016-02-19 14:43           ` George Rapp
2016-02-19 19:01             ` d c
2016-02-19 19:31               ` George Rapp

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