Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Milos Negovanovic
<milos.negovanovic@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 08:30:06PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
>> Milos Negovanovic wrote:
>>>
>>> Where is blkid getting its info from? fdisk sees /dev/sdb3 as linux RAID
>>> partition.
>>
>> I expect blkid gets its details from /dev file system area and
>> partprobe will update entries there for new or changed disks /
>> partitions.
>>
>> If /dev/sdb3 is not actually your /home file system [or used
>> otherwise], then I would be deleting the partition, re-adding it as
>> expected, then do partprobe and blkid again to check it looks happy.
>> Then hopefully you can add /dev/sdb3 back into the md2 RAID1 device
>> successfully.
>
> Its not used as /home at all ... Ive tried deleting partition with
> parted and re-creating it, setting the raid flag on it ... after
> running partprobe and blkid, output is the same, also error when adding
> it into RAID array is the same? Anyone know how to change the TYPE of
> the partition as seen by the blkid?
If you don't pass "-c /dev/null" to blkid, it uses its cached data.
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