Luca Berra wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:45:45AM -0600, Monty Charlton wrote: > >>Hello all, >> >>I've got a helluva problem and I'm hoping someone here can possibly help >>out. >> >>I've got raid5 (sdb1,sbc1,sdd1) on a partition, and one of the drives >>(sdd1) went bad. So I (stupidly) hit the reset button on the computer, >>but now the partition won't mount. Raid complains that one drive is bad >>(which it is), and that the other is out of sync. See part of dmesg >>below... >> >>Am I hosed? Can I fake out raid by commenting out some of the code that >>tries to determine whether or not the drive is fresh? > > edit /etc/raidtab > mark the drive you know as bad as > failed-disk instead of raid-disk > run mkraid --force on the array > read the message you get and do as instructed. Thank you for the reply. I read that in the howto, but feared it would destroy my data. As the mkraid manpage says, "... destroys all of the data on the consituent devices." I read the message, and am about to use the secret flag, but I want to be sure. This will not simply wipe out my data? This will only resync my two good drives? Sorry to be such a coward...just trying to be sure of what I'm doing. Thanks again, Monty - 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
