Jon Lurås wrote: > Hello > > I got a big problem with replacing disk on Software-RAID. > Whatever I do it just ends up as a spare disk. > I guess the problem is that the faulty disk was not removed from the RAID. > We just shut down and replace'd the disk. > Any idea of how to solve this? You say 'spare' but I think you mean 'that md/mdadm is ignoring it completely (on the grounds that it's not showing literally as a 'spare' in the --detail output. This is expected behaviour - md does not just randomly grab new disks; you have to use 'mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/hdk1' (use the correct component) to give md permission to use the new disk. Note that you should have partitioned it too (ie 'just shut down and replace' becomes, shut down, replace, partition, mdadm --add ) > > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > 0 56 1 0 active sync /dev/hdi1 > 1 56 65 1 active sync /dev/hdj1 > 2 0 0 2 removed > Look at http://linux-raid.osdl.org/ for more info... HTH 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
