[mythtv-users] Rebuild raid array ?

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Sun Nov 21 02:04:57 UTC 2010


Hi

On 21 November 2010 12:50, Kevin Bailey <keraba at gmail.com> wrote:
> a lot of drives being re-mapped after an upgrade.)
> You mentioned, "format". As I read things, raid doesn't require a formatted
> drive.

sure, if you gave md the whole disk.

but you haven't. You gave it partitions instead.

> (Only an fdisk'd one.) Isn't it that all I have to do is:
> mdadm /dev/md0 -f /dev/sda2   # fail it
> mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/sda2   # remove it
> mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sda2   # hot add it
> ?

not sure, I always google for those when I need it :)
but that sounds about right


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