Date:  Thu, 5 Oct 2006 07:22:46 +1000
From:  "Mark S Burgunder" <mark.s.burgunder (at mark) gmail.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:07431] Re: Trying to Rebuild Failed Drive in Mirror
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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On 10/4/06, MuntadaNet Webmaster <webmaster (at mark) muntada.com> wrote:
>
> The failed drive was sda.  So I replaced it.  I disconnected sdb
> temporary and booted up with knoppix.  I ran an fdisk on sda and
> deleted all the partitions.  I did a write and nothing more.


I believe you need to create the partitions on sda with the same or large
sizes as they are on your good drive.
I think your raid can't find the partitions on the new drive and fails to
rebuild because of that.

Cheers
Mark

	
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