On 2020-05-21 05:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Just an update on this. After faffing around trying to recover the > failing disk, I decided to replace it and start afresh. > > I formatted 2 1TB drives with ext4 and created a new md volume as > RAID1. However they are taking many hours to sync, despite being empty. > Is this normal? Just "lurking" here since it has been a very long time since I've configured RAID. But I have a question. You said you're starting from scratch? Meaning adding a RAID array as separate entity to an existing system? If that is the case, I thought the steps would have been. mdadm --create . . . . and then mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/md0 That aside, is Resync Status : 46% complete increasing, albeit slowly? -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
