On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 14:17 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > James Pifer wrote: > > >>> mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/hdb /dev/hdc dev/hdd > > I don't suppose it's possible your cwd was / at that time? Just > wondering why mdadm didn't complain. > > -Andy > Looking back through the history it's the only time I ran it. I guess at this point it's a hard lesson learned... The worst thing is that I thought everything was good because I was reading and writing to the array yesterday. So because I needed the space on the other machine the copy of the data was using, I removed it late last night. Wish I kept it til I had a better understanding of RAID and the commands, such as looking at /proc/mdstat. I apparently had a false sense of security not realizing I screwed up the setup of the raid array. Is any of this helpful? [root@storage ~]# mdadm --query /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: is not an md array /dev/hdb: device 0 in 3 device undetected raid5 /dev/md0. Use mdadm --examine for more detail. [root@storage ~]# mdadm --query /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: is not an md array /dev/hdc: device 1 in 3 device undetected raid5 /dev/md0. Use mdadm --examine for more detail. [root@storage ~]# mdadm --query /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: is not an md array /dev/hdd: device 3 in 3 device undetected raid5 /dev/md0. Use mdadm --examine for more detail. [root@storage ~]# mdadm --query --examine /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : 44cfc75c:25ae3e32:0fbb5311:50edfa8a Creation Time : Wed Nov 15 09:42:22 2006 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 156290816 (149.05 GiB 160.04 GB) Array Size : 312581632 (298.10 GiB 320.08 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Thu Nov 16 02:49:29 2006 State : active Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 85c9306 - correct Events : 0.57595 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 3 64 0 active sync /dev/hdb 0 0 3 64 0 active sync /dev/hdb 1 1 22 0 1 active sync /dev/hdc 2 2 0 0 2 faulty removed Is there anyway to force it to try and reload the array even with the failed device? I'm not getting drive errors on the device any longer. Is the failed device the "dev/hdd" where I missed the leading "/"? Or, is the failed device /dev/hdb? What else can I look at? What other commands should I run? Can I force it to rebuid md0 with hdb and hdc? Right now I get: [root@storage ~]# mdadm -v --run --force /dev/md0 mdadm: failed to run array /dev/md0: Invalid argument Right now it looks like md0 does not exist. James (sorry for the top post earlier...) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list