Re: [gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > So, I simply inserted and partitioned the new drive, added it to the > array and away we go! > > md0 : active raid6 sde1[6] sdd1[5] sdg1[4] sdh1[2] sdf1[1] sdi1[0] > 11720009728 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 > [6/5] [

Re: [gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Michael Orlitzky > wrote: >> This is the process I always follow: >> >> http://www.howtoforge.com/replacing_hard_disks_in_a_raid1_array >> >> The sfdisk trick will save you a bit of hassle. > > Thanks, it l

[gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I woke up this morning to see the dreaded email from mdadm telling me one of my drives failed overnight, while I was happily dreaming about cute puppies and kittens installing a rainbow-colored roof on my house. The array is a RAID6 (two parity drives) and this is the current state: md0 : act

Re: [gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/05/2013 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > I woke up this morning to see the dreaded email from mdadm telling me > one of my drives failed overnight, while I was happily dreaming about > cute puppies and kittens installing a rainbow-colored roof on my > house. The array is a RAID6 (two

Re: [gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > This is the process I always follow: > > http://www.howtoforge.com/replacing_hard_disks_in_a_raid1_array > > The sfdisk trick will save you a bit of hassle. Thanks, it looks like I was on the right path! Crossing my fingers...