Miles Fidelman wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> Miles Fidelman wrote: >> >> my root partition is raided, and is now running only on its single spare >> drive: >> >> ----- >> server1:~# more /proc/mdstat >> md2 : inactive sdd3[0] sdb3[2] >> 195318016 blocks >> >> You may try using the --run option. >> >> I do following >> >> 1) start the array with the healthy partition >> let's say md0 with sda1 sdb1 >> and sdb1 is faulty >> >> mdadm -A /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1 --run >> > I get: device /dev/md2 already active - cannot assemble it >> 2) add the faulty partition to the array for syncing >> >> mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1 >> >> 3) check /proc/mdstat >> >> cat /proc/mdstat >> >> you can also stop the array at any time >> >> mdadm -S /dev/md0 >> >> > well, I really can't - since it's my root volume > > I would boot with init=/bin/sh and do it from the initrd if you have mdadm in it. At this point of time root is not mounted, so -S should work.
perhaps you can do it from a usb boot or live-cd didn't understand it's your root, sorry actually one could move root on the run as far as I know but I've never tried it regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
