2014-05-06 16:33 GMT+02:00 Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com>: > Symlink are pointing to partition UUID this prevent the replacement > without manual intervetion: > > journal -> /dev/disk/by-partuuid/b234da10-dcad-40c7-aa97-92d35099e5a4 > > is not possible to create symlink pointing to a device ? > My new disk will generate new partitions UUIDs I did this: /etc/init.d/ceph stop osd sgdisk --backup=/tmp/journal_table /dev/sdd <replaced osd disk> sgdisk --restore-backup=/tmp/journal_table /dev/sdd ceph-osd -i 1 --mkjournal ceph-osd -i 4 --mkjournal ceph-osd -i 6 --mkjournal /etc/init.d/ceph start osd it worked, the only tricky part was to run --mkjournal for each ceph OSD. Is possible to automate this in some way? If not, I have to remember each OSD id and manually recreate the journal. What happen if I'll run "/etc/init.d/ceph start osd" with blank journals partitions ? (no FS created)