also sprach Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.20.2022 +0200]: > In this case, I had 4 drives, so if one failed, then the spare should > have been added but that hadn't happened.
I thought your original email said it did resync the spare? > I've also tested the two "failed" drives and they are quite > functional. A friend made a point to me that could make > a difference. I had not partitioned the drives since mdadm seems > okay without partitions. He said even if I only use one > drive-wide partition, I should still partition the drives in > a RAID first. Your friend is confused. :) I don't see why you'd have to do this. The partition table would get overwritten anyway. > Fortunately, this was in a backup system so I can get new drives > and rebuild it from scratch with the larger drives. I've already > got ideas for using the "failed" drives that are proving to be > just fine. Have you inspected the smartctl output and checked for SMART errors? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems no keyboard present. press f1 to continue. zen engineering.
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