Re: How to remove non-existant device

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On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:16:19 +0100
John Robinson <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 23/09/2010 08:30, Benjamin Schieder wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > On a SLES 10 SP 3 x86_64 version I'm encountering the following problem:
> >
> > Two disks sda and sdb are in a RAID 1 configuration. When pulling one
> > disk and replacing it it becomes sdc instead of sda. The RAID is now
> > degraded:
> >
> > kblhbe101:~ # cat /proc/mdstat
> > Personalities : [raid1] [raid0] [raid5] [raid4] [linear]
> > md2 : active raid1 sda8[2](F) sdb8[1]
> >        286125568 blocks [2/1] [_U]
> >
> > md0 : active raid1 sda5[2](F) sdb5[1]
> >        529984 blocks [2/1] [_U]
> >
> > md3 : active raid1 sda7[2](F) sdb7[1]
> >        4200896 blocks [2/1] [_U]
> >
> > md1 : active raid1 sda6[2](F) sdb6[1]
> >        2104384 blocks [2/1] [_U]
> >
> > unused devices:<none>
> >
> > But now I can't remove the sda partitions from the RAID:
> > kblhbe101:~ # mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/sda5
> > mdadm: cannot find /dev/sda5: No such file or directory
> > kblhbe101:~ # mdadm /dev/md0 -r sda5
> > mdadm: cannot find sda5: No such file or directory
> >
> > What am I doing wrong here?
> > kblhbe101:~ # mdadm --version
> > mdadm - v2.6 - 21 December 2006
> 
> Try `mdadm /dev/md0 -r missing`.

Close.  "missing" is only meaningful with --re-add.
You really want  "-r faileded" or "-r detached"

NeilBrown


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John.
> 
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