Hi Mikael Thanks for the reply On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 23 May 2014, Marnitz Gray wrote: > >> Hello good people of linux-raid. > > > Your output seems to indicate that you have one drive with an event count > that is 6 events off the others. This most likely means it's safe to use > --assemble --force in order to make this get accepted. Thanks, as per my original email I get an error message: "...assembled from 3 drives and 1 spare - not enough to start the array ". Am I doing something wrong? > > You didnt' state if you had space for more drives in your system, but you > seem to have a recent mdadm and hopefully then a recent kernel, hook up the > new drive to the system at the same time as the old one, add it as a spare, > and use mdadm --replace. Then it'll online-replace the drive you want to > change without degrading the array. This is a lot safer procedure. Thanks. I do not have space for any other drives in the system. I did not know about --replace, in hindsight I should've done some research first! Thanks for the info though! > > Also consider going RAID6 if at all possible, you could do that when you're > done replaceing all the drives with 3TB ones. Thanks again, the plan was to replace all the drives and then convert it to raid 6. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx Regards, Marnitz Gray -- 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
