On Sunday July 17, fzafra@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi all, > > I have raid5 array working without problem for some months. A SATA cable > failed and de raid5 works fine keeping the superblock persistent, but now, I > can't get the old device inserted into the array. ... > > And I try to re-add the old disk in this way: > > root@Torero-2:/mnt/raid5 # mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdh1 > mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdh1: Device or resource busy > > What is wrong? What I am doing bad? Sdh1 is absolutely unused, so I > don't understand the error "resource busy" Well, it definitely is busy... Maybe it is still part of md0, but marked as 'faulty'. If so (cat /proc/mdstat would tell you) you need to remove it first. mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/sdh1 mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdh1 NeilBrown - 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
