Hello.
I have a linux box, with two 2TB sata HD in raid 1.
Now, one disk is in failed state and it has no spares:
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 sdb4[2](F) sda4[0]
1910200704 blocks [2/1] [U_]
md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda2[0]
40957568 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
The drives are not hot-plug, so I need to shutdown the box.
My plan is to:
# sfdisk -d /dev/sdb > sdb.sfdisk
# mdadm /dev/md1 -r /dev/sdb4
# mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/sdb1
# shutdown -h now
replace the disk and boot (it should come back up, even without one
drive, right?)
# sfdisk /dev/sdb < sdb.sfdisk
# mdadm /dev/md1 -a /dev/sdb4
# mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdb1
and the drives should start to resync, right?
This is my first time I do such a thing, so please, correct me
if the above is not correct, or is not a best practice for
my configuration.
My last backup of md1 is of mid november, so I need to be
pretty sure I will not lose my data (over 1TB).
A bit abount my environment:
# mdadm --version
mdadm - v1.12.0 - 14 June 2005
# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.8 (Final)
# uname -rms
Linux 2.6.9-89.31.1.ELsmp i686
Thank you very much and best regards.
Robi
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