Am 24.02.2010 16:22, schrieb Robin Hill: > On Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 04:05:36PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> Am 24.02.2010 15:54, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >>> What to try? >>> >>> This is a crucial server and I feel a lot of pressure. >>> Rebuilding that raid would mean a lot of restore-work etc. >>> So I would really appreciate a goo advice here. >> >> Followup: >> >> --examine shows different statii for the four partitions: >> > Hmm, that looks like sda4 dropped out after sdc4 was removed, failing > the array. Can you force assemble the array? > mdadm -A /dev/md4 -f /dev/sda4 /dev/sdb4 > > If that works, you'll want to re-add the hot spare so it rebuilds. > You'll also need to fsck the filesystem afterwards. I thank you a lot for this piece of help. I always hesitate to TRY things in such a situation as I once back then dropped a RAID by doing the wrong thing. The md4 is UP again on 2 spindles, 3rd re-added right now. Looks promising. THANKS, I owe you something. I report back later with more details ... S -- 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
