On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 11:22 AM Wols Lists <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 05/03/20 14:53, Jinpu Wang wrote: > > "mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdl1" should work for you to add the disk > > back to array, maybe you can check first with "mdadm -E /dev/sdl1" to > > make sure. > > Or better, --re-add or whatever the option is. If it can find the > relevant data in the superblock, like bitmap or journal or whatever, it > will just bring the disk up-to-date. If it can't, it functions just like > add, so you've lost nothing but might gain a lot. > > Cheers, > Wol I tried re-add and I get the following error: bill@bill-desk:~$ sudo mdadm /dev/md0 --re-add /dev/sdl1 mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdl1: Device or resource busy sdl is not mounted, and it doesn't seem to be a device mapper issue: bill@bill-desk:~$ sudo dmsetup table No devices found Here is the current state of sdl: bill@bill-desk:~$ sudo mdadm -E /dev/sdl1 /dev/sdl1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x9 Array UUID : 06ad8de5:3a7a15ad:88116f44:fcdee150 Name : bill-desk:0 (local to host bill-desk) Creation Time : Sat Sep 22 19:10:10 2018 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 15627786240 (7451.91 GiB 8001.43 GB) Array Size : 23441679360 (22355.73 GiB 24004.28 GB) Data Offset : 264192 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=264112 sectors, after=0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 8c628aed:802a5dc8:9d8a8910:9794ec02 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Mar 2 17:41:32 2020 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 40 sectors - bad blocks present. Checksum : 7b89f1e6 - correct Events : 10749 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Device Role : spare Array State : AAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) What am I overlooking?