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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Williams wrote:

> In my old machine I had a two disk RAID1 array mounted on /home. I
> have transferred these two disks to a new machine, on which I have
> installed openSUSE 11.0. The operating system partitions are all on a
> separate (third) drive. During the installation process, while in the
> Partitioner, Yast detected my /dev/md0 so I happily mounted it on
> /home, and everything seemed to proceed nicely. That was a few days
> ago, and since then quite a lot of data has been written to /home
>
> I have now discovered that /dev/md0 only consists of a single
> drive, /dev/sdc1, and /dev/sdb1 has been sitting idle, twiddling it's
> thumbs!
>
> I'd be grateful if someone could guide me through the process of
> reassembling the array, without losing/overwriting the new data
> on /dev/sdc1. I have read through man mdadm, but I'm not confident
> about my understanding. Or perhaps I could do it in Yast?

I think it's easily dealt with by removing sdb1 from the array and then
re-adding it, but let's see  the output of 'cat /proc/mdstat'.


/Per

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/Per Jessen, Zürich

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