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raid 1 badly detected as raid 0 when one drive is missing
I'm learning raids, so maybe this is some basic question, but it's not covered anywhere...
When I create raid 1, update /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf as[1], run update-initramfs -u, I can reboot and mount it....
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Software RAID Nonfunctional after power outage
My server lost power yesterday. It automatically booted up when power came back, but my RAID is now nonfunctional.
The RAID array is a software RAID6 built with mdadm. Originally, the array used 8 ...
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Computer crashed, raid array in trouble
I arrived home today to find my home server was off (not idea why). Turned it back on again and the raid array was failing to mount.
/proc/mdstat shows:
Personalities :
md0 : inactive sdh[7](S) sdc[...
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Metadata of the assambled raid inconsistent with the metadata of the individual drives?
We have a raid 10 with two failed drives, with one drive from each set still functional.
When booting into rescue system the metadata seems to be fine and consistent with the expected state.
The ...
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What happens when you remove a drive from linux raid?
I have a home media server that gave me a message today saying one of the drives is soon to fail (not happy, still under warranty, that's another issue)
I am running Mdadm raid 0 on a 3 drive system ...
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RAID5 fails while recovering (mdadm): Any chance to resync?
My RAID5 is going to die because, while restoring a failed HDD, on another HDD read errors occurred and a restore is impossible. I just want to know whether it's possible to restore only a part of ...
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MDADM raid "lost" after reboot
I am kind of scared right now, so I hope you can bring light on my problem!
A few weeks ago, I bought a new 2TB drive and decided to setup a software RAID 5 with MDADM on my HTPC (drive sdb, sdc and ...
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One RAID1 missing after reboot
I'm using Open Media Vault 3 that is based on Debian 8.
I already have a RAID1 of 2x4TB WD Caviar Red, and now I'm tring to build a RAID1 with two Seagate Ironwolf 6TB.
Whe I build it anything is ...
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How to prevent an mdadm array check from consuming excessive system resources?
Once a month I've been doing
echo check > /sys/block/md2/md/sync_action
in order to force a software raid consistency check. The problem is this is a 7.2T RAID 5. The consistency check takes ...
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Raid Spare Spin Down
I have a software RAID 5 array (mdadm under Debian Linux) that has been up for the better part of a decade and has seen it's fair share of drive failures. I've always been leery about setting up a "...
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AMD SP5100 Raid 0 rebuild
I was using an onboard AMD SP5100 raid controller for a Raid 0 on two 1TB drives. The motherboard has failed. I have two questions - firstly if I replace with an identical motherboard, will I be able ...
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Can I create a degraded mdadm raid10-near (raid 1e) array?
I have three drives in my current system (all 1TB). The current setup is:
sdb - raid0 member (failing soon)
sdd - raid0 member
sde - backup
I'd like to change it so all three drives are part of a ...
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Software RAID0+1 using 3 disks
Is it possible to use mdadm to do RAID0+1 using 3 disks?
My scenario is 1x2TB disk and 2x1TB disks. Not interested in the RAID0 performance boost, just want to combine them so I can mirror them with ...
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Need to recover RAID0 disks from failed linux box
I have two drives from a failed old Linux box that were configured as RAID0.
I have created two dd image files using the following commands on my Mac:
dd if=/dev/disk3 of=disk0.img.dd bs=512
dd if=/...
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RAID0 data recovery & recovery strategy validation
I have a Synology expansion (DX213) connected to my NAS. It houses 2 disks of 2TB and they are in a RAID0 configuration (awful idea, I know and I don't need a reminder ;) ). Last weekend, the array ...
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