Questions tagged [mdadm]
A linux utility used to manage software RAID devices.
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Less painful way to resize/rearrange RAID1 backwards with mdadm
Got the following scenario in a two-disk RAID1 (mdadm) Debian-based server (no LVM involved):
Partitions (same for mirror /dev/sdb):
Unassigned space (formerly /dev/sda1 with Windows).
/dev/sda2 ...
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smartd reporting intentionaly removed disk
Iam monitoring my SW RAID on server using smartd, the problem is i removed failed disk. The disk was already put out of any RAID and hotswap was put on his place. There fore i just simply took the ...
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PowerEdge T610 H700 controller upgrade
I have a PowerEdge T610 server with Perc H700 RAID controller.
I wanna use the controller for non-raid, but I read some posts and the H700 controller doesn't support the non-raid operation. The ...
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Uneven disk load with mdadm RAID5 and ext4 filesystem with journal
Recently I created a RAID5 with mdadm:
mdadm --create /dev/md0 -l 5 -n 4 -c 512 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde
The usual tuning to speed up the initial sync:
echo 32768 > /sys/block/md0/md/...
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mdadm hardware raid-5 broken after dist-upgrade
We have intel raid-5 in motherboard, which was assembled in ubuntu as well and mounted as home in fstab. I read later somewhere I shouldn't use hardware raid in ubuntu. However it was working. But, ...
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How to setup bootable RAID 0 on remote server
I have a remote server with 2 identical 500Gb SSD, sda and sdb. A rescue mode is also available from the cloud provider's interface.
How to get Debian installed on a bootable RAID 0?
I understand I ...
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kpartx does not enumerate partitions properly on Software RAID
When I boot my system, partitions on a software raid group are not being enumerated automatically.
As a temporary fix I added the instruction break=mount in grub, so I can run manually kpartx -a /dev/...
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Messy RAID Array creation Needs Clean-up
I'd like some help to understand problems I am currently experiencing with a RAID 1 Array, created from Intel RSTe and managed with mdadm.
Overall RAID 1 Configuration
Both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are ...
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Missing mdam RAID1 array during scan
I have built a new server (Ubuntu 18.04.1) with 4 HDD.
My plan is to use RAID1 overall and came up with this layout after investigation:
sda, sdb four primary partitions (all as fd) with sda1/sdb1 ...
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mdadm RAID configuration changes disk sdXX naming randomly on reboot
I have an issue with software raid i build over 2 expanders with disks loaded as JBOD. After every reboot of server, the naming of virtual drives changes and also the array numbers and logic are ...
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Debian software raid 50
I was given task to build large SW RAID 50 array on debian 9. Since now i was using mainly HW controllers to do so, which managed a lot of by them selfs.
I have few question now
I managed to build ...
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RAID6 failed instantly and switched to RAID0 - any chance to rescue?
I´m running a server ob Ubuntu 16.04. Data storage on this system uses a lvm on top of a software raid 6 whereas the os is installed on a separate raid 1 with lvm.
The raid 6 is built up of 7 ...
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How to pre-emptively repair/replace drive in linux md array without going degraded first?
I have (had, it's already been swapped out, asking this for future use) a drive that is indicating pending failure with internal SMART tests and bad block remaps.
It is straightforward to mdadm --...
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Is it possible to convert RAID1 to RAID0 without system reinstalation?
I bought the E3-SSD-3-32 server from the SoYouStart offer. There is a 3x120 GB SSD drive. Unfortunately, after some time, there was a lack of disk space. Is there any way to convert RAID1 to RAID0? ...
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Disabling ext4 write barriers when using an external journal
I'm currently experimenting with different ways of improving write speeds to a fairly large, rotating disk-based, software-raid (mdadm) array on Debian using fast NVMe devices.
I found that using a ...
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Resize AWS EBS raid0
I've got an AWS raid0 array that I'm struggling to resize.
The underlying EBS volumes have been increased in size, but I'm not able to re-size the array to resize the FS.
I've tried using mdadm and ...
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Recover RAID 1 after unclean unmount
I have two drives in my desktop in RAID 1. My computer locked up on me yesterday, so I used SysRq REISUB for a "safe" restart. When the machine booted back up, I realized there was no data on my RAID ...
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Why does mdadm --zero-superblock preserve file system information?
I have two hard drive partitions, which I have combined into a RAID1 using mdadm, and created an ext4 filesystem on the resulting device.
When I mdadm --zero-superblock the two partitions, and re-...
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how to recreate a raid 1 array from a (failed) drive
A friend (yes, not me) had a RAID1 array where he didn't notice that both drives went massively bad (I suspect the computer was dropped or otherwise abused). I'm trying to recover what I can from the ...
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Recover data from a Linux software RAID1
I get a new customer with a failed old server (it does not boot anymore because of a failed CPU).
Unfortunately the customer does not have a backup and I am trying to recover data from the hard ...
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linux how to run badblocks for software raid (mdadm)
For a normal HDD partition, we run badblocks on HDD partition before creating the file system, like the following:
badblocks -o filename /dev/sda1
mkfs.XXX -l filename /dev/sda1
Note: XXX can be ...
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md RAID1 / ext4fs corrupting during nightly SMART self-test
I'm having this strange issue where my root-mount filesystem is terminally corrupted and auto remounted read-only seconds after a nightly S.M.A.R.T. short test begins. The filesystem is ext4 on top of ...
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RAID1 mdadm, automatically fail a drive and avoid a read-only file-system?
I am managing a server with two solid state drives configured in mdadm RAID1. The server is running RHEL6 with an ext4 filesystem.
This evening the server went offline shortly after nightly backups ...
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How to create software raid on working ubuntu server with gpt?
i have this structure of hdd on my server:
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / ...
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mdadm array disappears after system reboot
I have created an md array like so:
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
Then I used the resulting device in a ZFS pool:
zpool attach tank sdb md0
That worked great....
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Debian Jessie RAID6 recovery mdadm
I have a Debian Jessie box that lost the RAID volume that had the OS, so I booted Live USB to try to recover the attached SAS controlled external drive bay which has my data RAID6 and it sees 3 of the ...
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Do more mirrors in raid 1 reduce the likelihood of spit-brain failures?
I'm setting up a server, and my predecessor had a habit of setting up multiple RAID 1s with only 2 disks, which eventually resulted in split-brain situations which were difficult to recover from.
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Creating a RAID1 mdadm array `--bitmap=none` VS `--consistency-policy=resync`?
I am on CentOS7 with mdadm-4.0-5.
I have been experimenting with creating a RAID1 array on 2 SSD disks. The disks are not very large (~120G) so the rebuild time in case of failure should be very ...
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Cloning multiple SATA drives using dd with the assistance of software RAID1
So, I clone lots of Windows-based NTFS drives from images each day and I'm halfway through a project that could potentially help me and others to speed up this process dramatically.
I currently have ...
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mdadm/ext4 chunk size on raid 1
Sorry for my noob question.
I have a raid 1 system on mdadm in Debian, with the resulting partition formatted as ext4. Looking at the resulting share in Windows, it reports:
Size: 618GB
Size on disk:...
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Is it OK to prepare drives in mdadm RAID in LinuxMint live and then run CentOS7 installer?
I am planning to setup a CentOS7 server with software RAID. Since the CentOS7 installer isn't particularly good at preparing the disks, I wonder if it would be OK to boot up a LinuxMint 18 live, do ...
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TRIM issues with software RAID1 (mdadm) on two different SSDs (size and manufacturer)
I plan to do a server with 2 SSDs in RAID1 (for OS and boot) and 3 HDDs in RAID5 (for data). All Linux (CentOS7) with mdadm.
We have in the office 2 leftover SSDs, but they are from different ...
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Recover files from one of three mdadm RAID5 disks
I have lost 2 of 3 mdadm RAID5 disks.
How can i recover whatever files are available on the remaining one disk?
Sundeep
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Will my reshape result in an unrecoverable array?
I was adding an additional new drive to 4 drive raid 5 mdadm array.
During the process that drive was marked as faulty, along with one of the original 4 drives.
Previously to this the array had ...
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Expand mdadm array size without losing data on RAID 1
I have a mdadm raid 1 (size: 2TB) with 2 disks of 3TB.
I'm using almost all of the space of the mdadm array so I'm considering expanding.
However, I don't want to lose my data (of course :) )
As far ...
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7-disk RAID 5 working with only one disk? Bug?
I've got a 7-disk RAID-5 (3TB each), on a CentOS 5.5 box.
Today I was doing regular checkups on my system and found this weird bug(?):
How is this possible? This filesystem is formatted as XFS and ...
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Troubleshooting `Buffer I/O error` on software-raid/md-device
I've got a RAID-5 mdadm array that reliably causes Buffer I/O error on dev md0, logical block 1598030208, async page read to be written do dmesg when reading that block. Of course, the read also ...
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raid problems after power outage
I was in the middle of copying data to a raid5 from a raid 1 when the power went out. Initially, I figured the raid was lost, so I zeroed the super-blocks. fdisked all the drives in the raid 5 and ...
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Raid 1 from already initialized disk
I have 4TB disk (A) with data in it. Now I've bought a new 4TB disk (B), and I want to start a RAID1 so that B becomes the mirror of A, without loosing data on A. I'm under linux with mdadm tool.
The ...
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Mixing mdadm RAID with partially power loss protected SSDs
I have created a mdadm RAID 10 with 4 SSDs. 2 of those SSDs are consumer models and does not have the power loss data protection feature.
At the RAID creation i have put 1 SSD with power protection ...
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Missing raid device in /dev/
I have two sata disks: /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I have 4 partitions:
/dev/sd[ab]1 /boot
/dev/sd[ab]2 swap
/dev/sd[ab]3 /
/dev/sd[ab]4 /home
And all of them are in raid1.
Raid is working fine. Here is ...
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mdadm raid5 disk disabled, state clean, smart passed
i'm running a raid5 array with 5 disks. One disk got disabled.
dmesg :
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[Tue Dec 5 01:02:08 2017] md/raid:md0: read error NOT corrected!! (sector 15263288 on sdb1).
[Tue Dec 5 01:02:50 2017] ...
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Reasons for Linux to exclude a disk from the RAID10 array (degrade it) except for physical failure
I would like to understand the set of conditions on which Linux considers a drive really faulty, excludes it from array and considers RAID10 array degraded.
As I know, neither SMART self-check ...
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What are RAID 1/10 mismatch_cnt > 0 causes except for swap file?
Two of four of my servers currently have mismatch_cnt about 40000 and that worries me. We are using RAID10 setup. Manual states, that
However on RAID1 and RAID10 it is possible for software issues ...
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RAID6 resync with fast writes but slow reads
I'm using Debian Jessie.
# uname -a
Linux host 4.9.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u5~bpo8+1 (2017-09-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux
And have setup a RAID6.
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [...
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Enable new disk in raid
I had a server with 2 disks in a raid and one of them failed. Called the provider and had them change the disk.
After a reboot I still see only one disk:
cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [...
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GParted shows Raid1 partition as Ext4, how can I correct that?
As I've recently bought some extra disks to store my VM disks redundantly, hoping for some increased read performance and redundancy in case drives fail, I started building a RAID array.
I've ...
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mdadm - Convert multiple md members from RAID 5 to RAID 6
I've been looking for resources to manage a migration of several md members from RAID 5 to RAID 6 using mdadm.
Using this handy guide, http://www.ewams.net/?date=2013/05/02&view=...
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MDADM RAID1 Re-assembly - Non-destructive Method?
After a system reboot, my MDADM array suddenly showed very old (more than a year) data. I assume that one of the disks (sdd1) has been offline for most of that time, and after the reboot I am now ...
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mdadm marks hdd faulty even though it's in pristine health?
I have my custom NAS configured to spin down drives after 20 minutes of idle.
Just now I checked /proc/mdstat and noticed a drive was marked as failed, however SMART shows the drive to be in very ...
