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Raid1 with active and spare partition

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Mar 15, 20266574 views
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Problem

I am having the following problem with a RAID1 software raid partition on my Ubuntu system (10.04 LTS, 2.6.32-24-server in case it matters). One of my disks (sdb5) reported I/O errors and was therefore marked faulty in the array. The array was then degraded with one active device. Hence, I replaced…

Error Output

md3 : active raid1 sdb5[2] sda5[1]
  4881344 blocks [2/1] [_U]

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Fix for: Raid1 with active and spare partition

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Daniel: Initially, double-check to see if the spare is being integrated into the array by doing a: cat /proc/mdstat which should report if there is a build process going on, and how long to expect that to take. If no building is occurring, then try …

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