On 10.05.2007 01:23:27, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Bernd Schubert wrote: > > Benjamin Schieder wrote: > > > > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mdadm /dev/md/2 -r /dev/hdh5 > >> mdadm: hot remove failed for /dev/hdh5: No such device > >> > >> md1 and md2 are supposed to be raid5 arrays. > > > > You are probably using udev, don't you? Somehow there's presently > > no /dev/hdh5, but to remove /dev/hdh5 out of the raid, mdadm needs this > > device. There's a workaround, you need to create the device in /dev using > > mknod and then you can remove it with mdadm. > > In case the /dev/hdh5 device node is missing, mdadm will complain > "No such file or directory" (ENOENT), instead of "No such device" > (ENODEV). > > In this case, as I explained in my previous email, the arrays aren't > running, and the error refers to manipulations (md ioctls) with existing > /dev/md/2. > > It has nothing to do with udev.
Ah, that's good to know. I also thought that it couldn't find /dev/hdh5 from
the error message given.
The --force to -A worked fine, btw. Thanks for your help!
Greetings,
Benjamin
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