Forrest, Well, that seems to have done the trick. The array is currently "recovering" now. About 12 more minutes until the md0 partition is all done. I will let you know if anything goes wrong, but for now it looks like that was the solution. Thanks for taking the time to setup a box to test, etc. Really helped save the day! I owe ya a beer, which intel campus are you located at? Peter Quoting "Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx.taylor@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 16:02, list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Forrest, > > Thanks for taking the time to do a real simulation of what would happen. I > have > > a backup server in place at a different facility that can take over, but > that > > would require a DNS change that not all ISP's will obey. > > > > This is a very strange situation, and I have learned that before shipping > off a > > machine one should always make sure that if a drive is lost everything > will > > occur as expected. > > These are the results that I got, and they may differ from what you get, > because I cannot really simulate exactly what you have (I am not sure > why sda is not part of the array). > > I created a RAID 1 array for / and /home. I then turned off the machine > and unplugged one of the disks. When I turned it back on, it booted up > properly, and I saw something similar in /proc/mdstat that you had--only > one disk show up. In /var/log/messages, I get a message at boot time > that says: > > md0: former device sda1 is unavailable, removing from array! > > I created a RAID partition and I added it to the array: > > raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/sdb5 > > Then I can cat /proc/mdstat and see md0 is rebuilding (recovery = %) > > It may have been possible that sda was knocked loose during > shipping/mounting, and it wasn't working at boot time. Someone may have > noticed this, and reseated the drive. This would explain why sda is not > a part of the array, but you can see it with fdisk. > > Anyway, in another terminal, do `tail -f /var/log/messages` to see the > kernel messages, and try: > > raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 > raidhotadd /dev/md1 /dev/sda2 > > Check /proc/mdstat to verify that they are rebuilding. If so, you > should be good to go. > > Forrest > > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
