On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 5:56 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10 2017, Curt wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Curt <lightspd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>>> Can you please >>>> mkdir /tmp/dump >>>> mdadm --dump=/dev/dump /dev...list.all.devices.in.the.array >>>> tar czf --sparse /tmp/dump.tgz /tmp/dump >>>> >>> Yeah, I will get that for you once I reboot the server. >>> >> Quick question. Is that supposed to be mdadm --dump=/dev/dump or /tmp/dump? > > "/tmp/dump" - yes, I typed the wrong thing. > > Thanks, > NeilBrown Out of curiosity, how long should it take to tar these files? I get the system reports them as 1.9T and there not really that big, hence the sparse switch. I've just never tarred a sparse file file before. It's been churning away for about 2 hours, which I'm going to assume is normal. -- 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