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Mounting a raid1 device - no suitable drives found
I'm having some problems with my disks; long story.. but right now I'm trying to mount a device that was part of a 2-disk raid1. For that, I tried to assemble it into a new array, but...
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New NAS: Enhancing MDADM against long-term bitrot and random errors [closed]
For the last 15 years I was running MDADM(Raid6)+EXT4 under Ubuntu Server on smaller arrays <25Tb. Typically, all my arrays grow over the years, so I was starting with 4-5 drives and ending around ...
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resize2fs wont grow an mdadm array (raid6, lvm, ext4)
I've decided to grow my raid6 array:
- from: 7x 2TB drives (giving usable space of ~9TB in ext4/raid6)
- to: 7x 4TB drives (giving usable space of ~18TB in ext4/raid6)
I have replaced all seven ...
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Mounting External Intel Raid Device on Linux Failing, No Suitable Superblock and Read Past End
I have a hard-disk from a dead machine that I'm trying to mount on my Linux machine. For reference, I'm using Fedora 39 and mdadm v4.2. First, I tried just mounting it, correctly showing it's a RAID ...
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Degraded four-drive RAID 5 with missing superblock on single drive
I'll start with the question: Based on the following information, is there a mdadm command I can make in the readyNAS to reassemble all four drives in the raid 5 in a working state where I can pull ...
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Linux software RAID robustness for RAID1 vs other RAID levels
I have a RAID5 array running and now also a raid1 that I set up yesterday. Since RAID5 calculates parity it should be able to catch silent data corruption on one disk. However for RAID1 the disks are ...
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USB disk on a VBox on RAID was repartitioned
I have an Ubuntu on a VBox on Windows 10 Pro. The Ubuntu had a Raid 1+0 with 2 external USB disks. Suddenly, when I restarted the server, both disks got repartitioned with these: PARTLABEL="...
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How to recover a RAID 5 after deleting the partition table and fstab?
I have a RAID5 set up for my storage drives on my Nixos 23.11 machine. I followed this guide to set up the RAID (and I followed it very closely).
I have just reinstalled Linux on my boot drive (...
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Using mdadm to perform no-downtime backupd
I have a server running Ubuntu 23.10. It contains several RAID 1 arrays created using mdadm. One of these holds the virtual machine disk images of my web-servers. Currently, to backup these images, I ...
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Unable to access data on Intel "fake RAID" after failed Ubuntu update
Recently I did an update of my Ubuntu, it seems to work at first but after restart it shows:
kernell ofset relocation range kernel panic not syncing: VFS
I try to use different older kernel from Grub ...
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mdadm grow fails with "mdadm: Cannot add bitmap while array is resyncing or reshaping etc."
We have a RAID-1 setup. We changed the old 1TB disks for 3.7TB disks. The disk changes worked without a problem, the disks are in sync. We did have to change the partition type from MBR to GPT, but ...
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UEFI Intel RST RAID issue, can it be solved with MDADM?
I had two disks running on RAID0 on a Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6. They contained a Windows installation, although not used at all as I was running linux from another SSD disk.
They were running on the Intel ...
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Simple mdadm RAID 1 not activating spare
I had created two 2TB HDD partitions (/dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1) in a RAID 1 array called /dev/md0 using mdadm on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin.
The command sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md0 used to ...
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Read data from a raid1 disk, superblocks erased
I have a disk that used to be inside my qnap NAS (it was in raid1 with another disk, which I still have). The NAS died and I mounted the disk on my ubuntu machine using mdadm to create the raid array ...
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mdadm device missing
After a reboot my /dev/md0 device was missing. This is a RAID-1 array from two partitions of two harddrives. On each of the harddrives is another partition, which together belong to dev/md1. However, ...
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Mdadm raid 5 array is half the size than expected
I crated a Raid 5 array with mdadm consisting of 4 x 4TB drives, i was expecting the array to be 11-12Tb in total space.
But after building the array I noticed it is actuall half the size of the ...
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Mayhem with partitions and GPT: mdadm RAID overwritten by Windows partition - possible to fix partition table?
dear Community,
I’m writing as I may have wrecked my system up.
I launched disk manager in Windows; as one of my disks was not recognized, and as Windows kindly suggested me to initialize the-said ...
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Does TRIM avoid the performance impact of mdadm RAID 1 on SSD?
It has already been mentioned in other questions that Red Hat recommends against using mdadm RAID 1 on SSD.
Red Hat also warns that software RAID levels 1, 4, 5, and 6 are not recommended for use ...
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Recovering RAID 6: drives are ok, but partitions are "lost"
I faced strange issue with my RAID 6 array (8 HDDs, mdadm). Accidentially 3 drives were disappeared from it, with corresponding result - array has been ruined, but - all 8 drives are perfectly fine, ...
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Why MDADM removes disk with no errors from array and marks it as failed
I have a Raid6 that keeps automatically marking a disk (/dev/sdi) as Failed and removing it from the array even though the long test does not show any errors:
Test results
sudo smartctl -l selftest /...
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Clean up left-over around a RAID5 coming from a QNAP NAS
I just moved a 12TB RAID5 (4 disks of 4TB) from my QNAP NAS into my Linux Server (/dev/md0), and I noticed that there are three "left-over" partitions on each disk (/dev/sd*1, /dev/sd*2, /...
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Disable warning from mdadm for “degraded” RAID1 with missing drive
I recently had a server outage due to a failed drive. Because of that I set up the server with a new SSD in RAID1 this time but until I managed to get another SSD drive the mdadm-based RAID1 runs with ...
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mdadm lost RAID5 after new motherboard and processor
I moved my mdadm RAID5 to a different motherboard/processor, same boot drive.
The array is no longer found during a mdadm --assemble --scan
The motherboard was previously running INTEL RAID, so when ...
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Raid6 mdadm reshape operation interrupted - now cannot mount or examine
Edit: Once the reshape finished the drive became fully accessible again.
I had a power failure while a raid6 array was being reshaped, and now certain operations cannot be run against it, including ...
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Remove RAID metadata from HDD so it can be repurposed as a single disk
Previous RAID config was RAID6 in a QNAP NAS, I now want to repurpose the disks as 8 individual disk in different machines.
Each disk appears to have some RAID metadata (superblock) that is stopping ...
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Restoring/Accessing Synology Raid 1
I was recently asked to try to restore the data from a raid on a synology NAS. The raid consists of 2 disks of 2TB in size. It is a raid 1.
From what I was told, One of the drives has failed and the ...
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Is there a way to show RAID details in a similar way to MDADM?
I find mdadm --detail <device> very useful when I need to know what is going on with the device (/proc/mdadm too).
Example:
/dev/md0:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Mon Mar 4 08:35:...
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Mount Btrfs raid 5 from failed ReadyNas 104 on Linux - aka how I restore data from my ReadyNas
After about 7 years my ReadyNas finally failed, I would expect from Neatgear detailed recovery instruction, but I read dozens of threads - my problem is not uncommon, but solution was not found.
After ...
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Linux MD software raid stripe cache size
From what I can piece together the /sys/block/md0/md/stripe_cache_size is for raid5 and 6 set at a very low default value to avoid starving machines for memory.
By increasing this value you can get a ...
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Failed raid1, how to add a new disk with mdadm?
I have a home raid1 with 2 disks and one of them just failed (lightning strike on the house). I'm really unfamiliar with mdadm so I'm asking before doing anything stupid.
I can hot-plug a new HD on ...
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How to migrate mdadm RAID10 with 4 disks to RAID5?
I have a software RAID10 based on Linux’ mdadm under Debian Buster. Originally I found RAID10 had best performance. But I need more space and accept to trade some write performance for +50% space.
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mdadm - Raid 1 arrays do not assemble after reboot
I rebooted my server after creating 3 raid 1 arrays with mdadm, and after rebooting, systemd was spitting out errors about the raid devices timing out when trying to assemble them at boot.
I was given ...
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Unwanted, surprise device mapping causing problems with linux raid
Original title: Unwanted, surprise LVM disk mapping causing problems with linux raid
I've done linux raid on ubuntu for almost a decade but never messed with LVM although I'm vaguely aware it exists.
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MDADM array rebuilding after every reboot
I have just grown my RAID-1 mirror in to a RAID-5.
After adding a 3rd disk, the array rebuilt successfully, but after restarting the array was showing as inactive, and the new disk (sde) had lost all ...
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Converting LVM/EXT4 to ZFS without losing data
I have a home media server with 2 x 3TB drives in it. Its currently set up using mdraid (1), LVM and EXT4. The setup was done using the ncurses Ubuntu Server installer.
Goal
Convert the setup to use ...
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How to restore my RAID5 after mistakenly failing one of the drives?
I have a RAID5 on Xubuntu 20.04, created with mdadm. I failed one of the three drives by mistake. The array is still working, but I get errors or responses I do not understand from my attempts to ...
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CentOS 6 LVM RAID5, unable to activate VG / LV. "device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:119) failed: Input/output error"
I've found myself in a complex Linux LVM-RAID5 / device-mapper problem after one temporary device failure, and one bad block encountered during that time. The logical volume can now not be activated ...
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MD RAID 6 with XFS Periodic Kernel Panic -- Possible Kernel Bug?
This now appears to be a bug with the combination of MD and XFS after finding similar kernel panic reports elsewhere. A bug report with Ubuntu has been filed here ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+...
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"ext4lazyinit" running since 6 days on a new RAID5 array
I know there are a lot of "ext4lazyinit" topics. But they are all about 4-6TB HDD, and poster stating that it has in the end been completed after a few hours.
On my side i have a newly ...
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mdadm one disk sometimes is missing after reboot
On a debian system my home directory is on a raid1 md array. After creation it worked fine for some time, but once the second drive disappeared from the array.
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [...
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New mdadm RAID vanish after reboot
I have problems with mdadm after reboot, I can't reassemble /dev/md0 .
I work on debian wheezy.
I have done the following steps::
sudo mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=6 --raid-devices=4 /...
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Does RAID1 increase performance with Linux mdadm?
I have a cheap 2-bay NAS with a 2TB HDD. To be robust against disk failure, I'm thinking of buying a second 2TB HDD and putting it in RAID1 with Linux mdadm. The file system is ext4.
Will this ...
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Raid 10 gone - how to rebuild / find informations
Because of another task, i had to disconnect all the raid hdd's from my pc.
Shutdown -> disconnect hdd's -> boot -> shutdown -> connect hdd's -> boot -> raid completely lost.
mdadm --...
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Is it possible to create a RAID from only partial disk?
We have a dual boot system where we install firmare on two partitions, additionally we have a data partition. We have two disks on the system and I wonder if we can create a raid for the data ...
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raid 4 3 disks + 2 parity disks
I have a raid 0 with 3 disks and I want to be able to lose some disks without losing data.
I'm using mdadm and I already started to grow my config
Current config:
Personalities : [raid0] [linear] [...
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My Software RAID 5 has 4 3TB HDDs, now two of them have bad sectors. What is a good way to replace them?
I run mdadm on Ubuntu 18.04 to build a RAID 5 array of 4 3TB drives several years ago. The machine was not running for years. Yesterday I powered it on and found two of the disks have a bunch of bad ...
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mdadm RAID Fast Setup with Empty Drives?
I am recreating some RAID5 disks as RAID6 with mdadm. There is no data on the drives that I care about.
Setting up RAID takes a while to setup the shape - I accept that when there there is data that ...
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Linux Software Raid Rebuild on machine failure
I have a debian home server that has a 4 disk software RAID 5 array. My OS runs only on a normal nvme SSD. I know thats not secure, but it is a home server, so I didn't really care when I installed it ...
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Adding drives to a RAID 10 Array
How would I grow a RAID10 array using mdadm?
Obviously I would need to add 2 drives at a time, or would it have to be 4 drives?
I have a feeling its just a bad idea.
Or would be just wiser to just ...
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Will Synology still recognize its drive after it's been assembled via mdadm on another OS?
I have one HDD with a single Basic ext4 volume, and accidentally deleted some of my files on it. I want to try extundelete or ext4magic under Ubuntu, but I'm worried - does mdadm assembly modify the ...
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