Re: RAID5 up, but one drive removed, one says spare building, what now?

[Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>]

On 10/11/17 23:17, Wols Lists wrote:
> If you take the wiki slowly, you'll hopefully grasp what's going on.
> 
> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid#Overview
> 
> Especially the bit about setting up a new system or converting an
> existing system. Okay, they're not at all about what you're doing, but
> if you work your way through and get what's happening there straight in
> your head, you'll then be able to apply it to your setup.
> 
> Note that they're written from my perspective as a gentoo user, so I
> have to do everything from scratch - boot into a live/rescue CD, and
> then configure/setup the system from there.

Just checked those two pages (should have done that before I hit send
:-) and they're not quite as appropriate as I thought. Still worth
reading, though.

But that's given me an idea for more detail in the wiki, so this should
lead to further improvement :-)

Cheers,
Wol