From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 15 16:20:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BEC637B718 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:20:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id EC76A6A918; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:50:23 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:50:23 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "J. Seth Henry" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Vinum disk replacement Message-ID: <20010316105023.B38666@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jshenry@net-noise.com on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:26:08PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 14 March 2001 at 23:26:08 -0600, J. Seth Henry wrote: > Ok, does anyone know the proper way to replace a drive in a vinum RAID5 > array? I thought I did, but apparently not. > > I tried pulling the disk, replacing it with another disk having the same > SCSI ID, and creating a label for it - ala the vinum web page. (this is > after partitioning and changing the partition type with disklabel). When I > start vinum, it shows the RAID5 plex as degraded, and the affected disk as > down. So far, so good - the file system is slow, but fine. Next, I init the > plex, using "init mmvolc.p0.s2". Ok, so how do I rebuild parity from here? I > try starting the plex, and it comes up. No rebuilding parity, nothing. but > when I try to mount the file system, it is trashed. (presumably because one > of the disks is full of zeros!). > > I tried the step by step on the website, but it didn't work. Well, how about describing *how* it didn't work? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message