You're on the right track :) mdadm --fail /dev/sdr should do. -- Mike T. On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 16:43, Mark Cuss wrote: > Kernel 2.4.27 > > I've been using the old raidtools stuff and am new to mdadm - sorry if this > is a obvisouly simply question... > > After perusing the man page, is looks to me that I should use mdadm to mark > the drive I want to remove as failed to force a rebuild on the spare drive. > I want to double check that this is correct first though, as this md device > contains 300 gig of production data. > > Thanks for the help! > > Mark > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Greaves" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Mark Cuss" <mcuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 5:29 AM > Subject: Re: How to force a spare drive to take over in a RAID5? > > > > Mark Cuss wrote: > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> I have a 4 drive SW RAID5 running on my machine. One of the drives is > >> upset for some reason - I'm not sure if the drive itself is bad, but > >> that's not too important right now. The important thing is to get the > >> RAID5 to stop using this drive and start using a spare drive that I > >> just added. > > > > > >> I did a raidhotadd to add in a new drive, sds. Now, I would like the > >> array to stop using sdr and reconstruct all of the parity tables on > >> sds so I can pull sdr and get it replaced or whatever... > >> > >> Any ideas? > > > > Install and read the manpage for mdadm > > > > What kernel version? > > > > David > > > > > - > 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 > - 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
