Hi all, I've got a debian woody system running in RAID1 degraded mode at the moment because there is no hot spare currently. mdadm isn't installed, just the bog stadard raidtools I think. I've taken out the dead drive, and I have a spare to replace it with, but I'm wondering what I have to do now.
I'm guessing I can't just put the new drive in and have it autodetect and start rebuilding. Do I have to format the drive so that it is exactly the same as the other drive, or can I just assign it as a hot spare and then have the array automatically rebuild? I've never had to deal with software RAID before, so I'm not entirely sure how to do it. It's been running fine in degraded mode for a while now, but naturally I'd prefer to rebuild the mirror and add another hot spare as well. I've read the software RAID howto, but I'm still a bit confused. Any ideas? Cheers, Michael Brown -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
