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New NAS: Enhancing MDADM against long-term bitrot and random errors
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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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