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Re: Debian Raid Crash Repair



On 11/14/05, Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.linux-consulting.com> wrote:
>
>
> - if your raid is configured properly ..
>         - you will be able to pull any single disk out and it will
>         still boot and operate ( but you dont have the redundancy anymore)
>

You may need to remove the failed drive from the array:

  mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/hda1

Do the above for each respective raid partition.  Assuming hda is the
failed physical device.

>         - you will be able to install a new disk, partition it the
>         same as the disk you're replacing, and "the raid" should
>         start syncing the new disk into the raid array
>

Actually, you'll need to run the following command for each raid partition:

  mdadm /dev/md1 -a /dev/hda2

Where hda2 is the new disk, and md1 is the raid partition.  To view
the rebuild progress:

  mdadm --detail /dev/md1

You'll probably want to install grub on the new drive:

  device (hd0) /dev/hda
  root (hd0,0)
  install /grub/stage1 (hd0,0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,0)/grub/menu.lst
  install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,0)/grub/menu.lst

Refer to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2002-03/msg00047.html
for more details about installing grub on the other drive.

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 If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman
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