On Sun, 27 Nov 2022, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I've searched documentation on mdadm and I can't figure out if there is a way to just restart the array. Suggestions?
John, Perhaps: How do I reactivate my MDADM RAID5 array? - Super User You should try stopping and re-starting the array: mdadm --stop /dev/md0 mdadm --assemble --scan to re-assemble the array and if that doesn't work, you may need to update your mdadm.conf, see for example this question for details on how to do that. Share Improve this answer Follow edited Mar 20, 2017 at 10:17 Community Bot 1 mdadm RAID array stop and restart - Ask Ubuntu https://askubuntu.com › questions › 1398907 › mdadm-raid-array-stop-and-restart Mar 23, 2022Now to stop the array and restart it , I'm following below steps: mdadm --stop device mdadm --create ..... (the same command which I used to create the array at first) --- > Is it correct process to stop and restart RAID arrays? --- > Should I run "mdadm --zero ..." to clear superblock after stopping array ? Is it mandatory step to stop array? Rich
