Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Milos Negovanovic wrote: Ive dd-ed /dev/sdb3 and that did the trick! I was able to re-add the partition to RAID array. Great, but keep an eye on that disk. I would definitely be wanting to ensure it's integrity ... at the very least make sure you have good backups. I'm sure you know that si

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Milos Negovanovic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 01:46:21PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1305 > +0200]: > > > If the disk is failing as it appears from the smartctl message ... > > > then I also concur that you should look at replacing the disk ASAP. > > > > Ill try to fix th

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Milos Negovanovic wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 08:30:06PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Milos Negovanovic wrote: >>> >>> Where is blkid getting its info from? fdisk sees /dev/sdb3 as linux RAID >>> partition. >> >> I expect blkid gets its details from /dev

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1305 +0200]: > > If the disk is failing as it appears from the smartctl message ... > > then I also concur that you should look at replacing the disk ASAP. > > Ill try to fix the RAID first, Ive seen crappy drives going into > temporary spasm and everyth

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Milos Negovanovic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 08:30:06PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi Milos, > > Milos Negovanovic wrote: > >root@micro ~ # blkid > > Edited the following > > >/dev/sda3: UUID="9bca8a2b-2283-9bed-c8fe-9f89b0860cb2" > >LABEL="micro:2" TYPE="linux_raid_member" /dev/sdb3: LABEL="home" > >UUID=

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Milos, Milos Negovanovic wrote: root@micro ~ # blkid Edited the following /dev/sda3: UUID="9bca8a2b-2283-9bed-c8fe-9f89b0860cb2" LABEL="micro:2" TYPE="linux_raid_member" /dev/sdb3: LABEL="home" UUID="4030e91a-c6fa-4640-81eb-654e2ad8c180" TYPE="ext4" root@micro ~ # mdadm --detail --

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1143 +0200]: > Hmmm this line looks suspicious: > /dev/sdb3: LABEL="home" UUID="4030e91a-c6fa-4640-81eb-654e2ad8c180" > TYPE="ext4" > > Where is blkid getting its info from? fdisk sees /dev/sdb3 as linux RAID > partition. From the partition. Is the par

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1134 +0200]: > For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/syslog). And? Please try to provide all relevant information up front. It takes a lot of effort of others if we have to pull all information out of your nose. -- .''`. martin f. krafft

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Milos Negovanovic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 07:33:23PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > Milos Negovanovic wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 07:09:57PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >>Hi Milos, > >> > >>Milos Negovanovic wrote: > >>>root@micro ~ # mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 > >>>mdadm: add new device fa

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1130 +0200]: > I was in the middle of system update via aptitude last week, and it > started giving me strange errors that it cant access /dev/sdb3 ... I > suspect these were errors from underlaying RAID array. At about the same > time smartd sent me a ma

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Milos Negovanovic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:30:01AM +0100, Milos Negovanovic wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:50:17AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Milos Negovanovic > > [2011.09.24.1034 +0200]: > > > one of my servers has experienced degradation in one of its RAID arrays: > > > > What happene

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Milos Negovanovic wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 07:09:57PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi Milos, Milos Negovanovic wrote: root@micro ~ # mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdb3 as 2: Invalid argument Try like this instead: mdadm /dev/md2 --add /dev/

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Milos Negovanovic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:50:17AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1034 > +0200]: > > one of my servers has experienced degradation in one of its RAID arrays: > > What happened? I was in the middle of system update via aptitude last week, and it started

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew McGlashan [2011.09.24.1109 +0200]: > >root@micro ~ # mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 > Try like this instead: > mdadm /dev/md2 --add /dev/sdb3 That's the same to mdadm. -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ "i never go without my dinner. no one ever does,

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Milos Negovanovic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 07:09:57PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi Milos, > > Milos Negovanovic wrote: > >root@micro ~ # mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 > >mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdb3 as 2: Invalid argument > > Try like this instead: > > mdadm /dev/md2 --add /dev/sdb3 > root@

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Milos, Milos Negovanovic wrote: root@micro ~ # mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdb3 as 2: Invalid argument Try like this instead: mdadm /dev/md2 --add /dev/sdb3 -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1034 +0200]: > one of my servers has experienced degradation in one of its RAID arrays: What happened? > root@micro ~ # mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 > mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdb3 as 2: Invalid argument Does /dev/sdb3 exist? > As you c

degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Milos Negovanovic
Hi all, one of my servers has experienced degradation in one of its RAID arrays: root@micro ~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] 1424121720 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [U_] md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1] 29295544 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]