> I'm not very familiar with software raid on Linux so I could not give > him the commands he needed over the phone or via e-mail. Does anyone > know the appropriate steps/commands to get him back on the correct > track?
Working from memory, so, don't quote me, but. Assuming it's hda and hdc and hda exploded/got replaced, and there is /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 made of /dev/hdX1 and /dev/hdX2 $ cat /proc/mdstat make sure hda shows as failed # sfdisk -d /dev/hdc to get the surviving drive's geometry # fdisk /dev/hda and proportion out the new disk similarly # raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 $ watch cat /proc/mdstat watch the rebuilding fun # raidhotadd /dev/md1 /dev/hda2 $ watch cat /proc/mdstat watch the rebuilding fun -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
