On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 07:50:41AM -0400, John Hynes wrote: > Greetings All, > > I have a softraid device, sd3, which was created as follows: > > bioctl -c 1 -l /dev/sd0a,/dev/sd1a,/dev/sd2a softraid0 > > The chunk sd2a failed. bioctl shows the RAID1 as degraded, and chunk sd2a > as OFFLINE. > > In order to rebuild, I'd need to set up the new sd2. After replacing and > zeroing the drive, I replaced the MBR with fdisk -yi /dev/sd2, which worked > fine. Next, I copied the disklabel from sd0 to sd2, but disklabel refused > to write the new label, saying: > > disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Open partition would move or shrink > disklabel: unable to write label
How exactly are you copying the disklabel? Is sd2 the same size as sd0? As always a dmesg would help. In this case by answering the latter. :-) .... Ken > > I could use another slot I suppose, but is there a way to label the chunk > in the same slot and rebuild onto it that I'm missing? > > Thanks, > > -John
