On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Luca Berra wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:30:49AM -0400, Scott Bolander wrote: > >I have a Mandrake 10 server with a 40gb boot drive and a three 200gb disk > >software raid 5 array using reiserfs. A disk went bad; so i have replaced > >it. > > > >Doing the normal things to get it back up don't work: > > > >[root@server root]#raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdg > .... > ># cat /etc/raidtab > >raiddev /dev/md0 > >raid-level 5 > >chunk-size 128k > >persistent-superblock 1 > >nr-raid-disks 3 > > device /dev/hdg1 > > raid-disk 0 > > device /dev/hdi1 > > raid-disk 1 > > device /dev/hdk1 > > raid-disk 2 > > > so you replaced the first disk in the array? > raidtools are not capable of handling this. > switch to mdadm Er - Maybe I'm missing something (like the original message in this thread), but I've successfully used raidtools to raidhotremove and raidhotadd the first drive (and others) in a raid5 set.., Once on a real 'hot' system, a server with SCSI drives which I didn't power cycle, and on IDE systems where I've done a sequence of raidhotremove, power down, change physical drive, boot up, cfdisk new drive, then raidhotadd... Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
