On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 16:29 -0500, Dan Carl wrote: > I have/had a software raid running and sdc drive failed. > I got a replacement drive today and installed it. > My only experience with set partitions and raids in during initail setup. > I could not fdisk the new drive because i guess it wasn't reconized so I > rebooted. > Now I can reach the drive via fdisk but I have made more problems now (no > swap now) > and I'm not sure the steps to rebuild. > Background: > I have a FC3 with a software raid. > I have 3 SCSI 18gb hard drives > If I recall this how I set it up > md0 /boot 100MB raid 1 sda, sdb and sdc as spare > md1 /swp 768MB raid 0 sda, sdb, sdc This toasted your /swp partition. Raid 0 is striping, and a single failure toasts the entire device. You would have been ahead with a non-raid swap, and had 3 separate partitions, one on each device, for swap. Failure of one would not have toasted all. > md2 / ext3 33GB raid 5 sda, sdb, sdc > > Can someone please help? > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list