Hi All, i stuffed up the setup of the raid and have 3 partitions in a raid 1 array, instead of 2 partitions and a hot spare. i also want to move the partitions around for better load balancing on the scsi channels. i dont want to blow away the data, so i tried to raidsetfaulty, but i get an error. i also tried mdctl, but get some wierd results. may indicate something? or maybe just a simple syntax error. when i examine each drive in the array, the state info looks corrupt? thanks for any help. Brin /sbin/raidsetfaulty /dev/md0 /dev/sdj1 /dev/md0: can not set disk faulty: invalid argument. /sbin/mdctl --fail /dev/md0 /dev/sdj1 mdctl: set disk faulty failed for /dev/sdj1: Invalid argument proc ------ md0 : active raid1 sdj1[1] sdb1[2] sda1[0] 14272 blocks [3/3] [UUU] md1 : active raid1 sda4[0] 8296896 blocks [3/1] [U__] uname --------- Linux sunny 2.2.19-6.2.12smp #1 SMP Fri Oct 26 12:56:49 EDT 2001 sparc64 mdctl --details /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.00 Creation Time : Fri Dec 28 11:46:24 2001 Raid Level : raid1 Size : 14272 Raid Disks : 3 Total Disks : 3 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistance : Superblock is persistant Update Time : Wed Feb 20 12:34:58 2002 State : dirty, no-errors Active Drives : 3 Working Drives : 3 Failed Drives : 0 Spare Drives : 0 Number Major Minor RaidDisk State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 8 145 1 active sync /dev/sdj1 2 8 17 2 active sync /dev/sdb1 UUID : ebb91537:7e1a6584:6af43831:df6271f0 mdctl --examine /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : ebb91537:7e1a6584:6af43831:df6271f0 Creation Time : Fri Dec 28 11:46:24 2001 Raid Level : raid1 Size : 14272 Raid Disks : 3 Total Disks : 3 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Wed Feb 20 12:34:58 2002 State : dirty, no-errors Active Drives : 3 Working Drives : 3 Failed Drives : 0 Spare Drives : 0 Checksum : d5f56b6e - correct Events : 0.0 Number Major Minor RaidDisk State this 0 0 8 1 0 0 0 8 1 1 0 1 8 145 faulty /dev/ram8 2 0 2 8 17 active /dev/fd0h1200 ^ This looks strange to me? --------------------------------------------------- Brinley Craig Network Administrator Godfrey Hirst Australia Pty. Ltd. Ph: 03 5225-0139 Fx: 03 5222-3885 brinley.craig@godfreyhirst.com --------------------------------------------------- PLEASE NOTE: Whilst we use software to detect viruses we exclude all liability for the presence of any virus or alike in any attachments. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html