Re: Recontruction a failed raid array on root

[thing <thing@katrina.thing.dyndns.org>]

Craig wrote:

> Well we cannot run raidhotadd to add the new partition because the root file
> system is already mounted so we get disk busy error.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thing [mailto:thing@katrina.thing.dyndns.org]
> Sent: 07 May 2003 09:37
> To: craigsc@zdata.co.za
> Subject: Re: Recontruction a failed raid array on root
>
>
> Craig wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hi Guys
> >
> > We have a server running raid 1 mirroring and one of the HDD failed.
> > We have since replaced
> > the failed drive and have re-constructed 2 out of the 3 raid arrays.
> > The problem we are having is
> > with re-contructing the raid array runnning on the root partition.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Craig
> >    
>
> It should be straightforward, what problem(s) did you encounter?
>
> Basically make a matching partition using fdisk, set the type to fd,
> tell the raid about it now being available and watch it sync.
>
> regards
>
> Thing
>
>
>  
Show me the /etc/raidtab file, outputs from,

cat /etc/fstab

cat /etc/mtab

df -h

cat /proc/mdstat

the syntax of the raidhotadd command you used

regards

Thing