mdadm usage to restore lost disk

Michael Ault mikerault at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 1 12:51:19 UTC 2006


I have fixed it already, basically ran e2fsck on the
ejected disk /dev/sdh, it reported bad superblock on
both the main and backup superblock, re-partitioned
the drive and rewrote the superblocks using fdisk then
used the mdadm command with the -a option to add the
disk back into the array.

--- Michael Ault <mikerault at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have configured a RAID 5 array usinf mdadm with 8
> disks. After my last reboot it reported it was
> running
> in a degraded condition with only 7 disks active. ow
> do I fix the eighth disk and get it back into the
> configuration?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Mike
> 
> Michael R. Ault
> Senior Consultant
> Burleson Oracle Consulting
> 770-754-9057
> www.ault.cc
> www.remote-dba.com
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Michael R. Ault
Senior Consultant
Burleson Oracle Consulting
770-754-9057
www.ault.cc
www.remote-dba.com




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