Just a note to say that I tried to do this earlier.
Had fun identifying the disk but found the correct one in the end, (I
unmounted everything and stopped md0 whilst doing this fortunately).
One thing I did find was that the -a switch on the mdadm manage
command did not work, but the full --add di
All,
Great, that all seems clear so I'll give it a go later on and see what
happens. Just double checking the backups first at the moment, (Per -
fortunately the space is overkill for what I need at the moment so I
do have a couple of copies of everything off of the server!).
Many Thanks
Tim
Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Partition the disk, type fd - I'm unsure if it is absolutely
> necessary, but I believe it is. Check the other disks to make sure.
No, it's not necessary.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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Tim Hempstead wrote:
> Now sdg is part of a 6 disk RAID5 array (md0) using Linux software
> raid. I am assuming that the process to replace the disk is something
> like this:
>
> 1). Make sure I have an up to date backup of everything important off
> the server
That would be nice, but with one
On Saturday 15 December 2007 11:00:12 Tim Hempstead wrote:
> Hi
>
> Woke up this morning to find that my server is making some noises
> which are no normally associated with healthy disks. Looking on the
> system everything still looks fine in mdadm but there are some errors
> against sdg in dmesg
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The Saturday 2007-12-15 at 10:00 -, Tim Hempstead wrote:
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Now sdg is part of a 6 disk RAID5 array (md0) using Linux software
raid. I am assuming that the process to replace the disk is something
like this:
0 - check the state
mdadm --de
Hi
Woke up this morning to find that my server is making some noises
which are no normally associated with healthy disks. Looking on the
system everything still looks fine in mdadm but there are some errors
against sdg in dmesg indicating a media error and this combined with
the noises its making
