On 07/08/16 12:21, Wols Lists wrote: > On 07/08/16 10:54, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: >> > On Sun, 7 Aug 2016, Wols Lists wrote: >> > >>> >> I also can't run the array :-( >> > >> > What does "cat /proc/mdstat" say? > The vm is shut down right now, but it said inactive, four drives, > [UUU_], iirc. I'll post it when I get it back up. Didn't mention raid > type, so that could be messed up somewhere. > > Two drives are mirrored, it should be rebuilding on to third, and a > fourth is spare (ready to rebuild into raid6) /dev/sdd seems to have disappeared - maybe I removed it ... I've been mucking about a fair bit ... Note that "mdadm" is the version that came with the system, "./mdadm" is the latest version downloaded via git. And being SuSE, with systemd, "--continue" is supposed to fire off a background mdadm, I believe. ps tells me that isn't happening... kanga:/home/anthony # cd mdadm/ kanga:/home/anthony/mdadm # ./mdadm -D /dev/md127 /dev/md127: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Fri Aug 5 18:16:24 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 8380416 (7.99 GiB 8.58 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sun Aug 7 01:20:23 2016 State : active, Not Started Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Delta Devices : 1, (2->3) Name : kanga:testarray (local to host kanga) UUID : cf52ebc0:886a35cd:688274b4:3f16096c Events : 157 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 4 8 16 0 active sync /dev/sdb 1 8 32 1 active sync /dev/sdc 3 8 64 2 active sync /dev/sde kanga:/home/anthony/mdadm # mdadm /dev/md127 --grow --continue kanga:/home/anthony/mdadm # ps -fea | grep mdadm root 1953 1855 0 13:02 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto mdadm kanga:/home/anthony/mdadm # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md127 : inactive sdc[1] sde[3] sdb[4] 25141248 blocks super 1.2 unused devices: <none> kanga:/home/anthony/mdadm # ./mdadm /dev/md127 --grow --continue kanga:/home/anthony/mdadm # ps -fea | grep mdadm root 1967 1855 0 13:03 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto mdadm kanga:/home/anthony/mdadm # -- 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