<div dir="ltr">/proc/mdstat tells me I have to wait another 6 hours before I find out if it's OK !!<div>It's only 3x 3Tb drives but rehacking the parity to the new disk (the array is about full) means writing nearly 3Tb.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll try & remember how I did this current machine as that is 3x4Tb with a 4Tb hot spare but at least I won't be shopping for a compatible drive after 8 years so long as the standby works OK.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 11:45 AM Blair Inglis <<a href="mailto:blair.inglis@gmail.com">blair.inglis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">g for new gpt table</div><div dir="auto">n for new partition (creates a linux partition)</div><div dir="auto">t to change type, 29 is linux raid</div><div dir="auto">w to save and exit</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">there's a guide on <a href="http://the-geek-diary.com" target="_blank">the-geek-diary.com</a> that says to use sfdisk to copy a good disks table to the new disk before rebuilding the array.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">check mdadm --detail to see if its rebuilding (prob take ages)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 20 Jul 2023, 10:38 Robin Gilks, <<a href="mailto:gb7ipd@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">gb7ipd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm replacing a failed disk in my raid array but I can't get it to show the partition data the same as the other 2 disks.<div>SDA and SDD are the OK drives and they display (under both parted and fdisk) a primary partition with no filesystem. The new one is SDC</div><div>If I try to create a primary partition on SDC both apps create a filesystem (fdisk type 83, parted ext2 - didn't check type).</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone know the magic sauce?</div><div><br><div><br>Model: ATA ST3000DM001-1ER1 (scsi)<br>Disk /dev/sda: 3001GB<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B<br>Partition Table: gpt<br>Disk Flags:<br><br><br>Number Start End Size File system Name Flags<br></div><div> 1 1049kB 3001GB 3001GB primary<br><br><br>Model: ATA ST3000DM008-2DM1 (scsi)<br>Disk /dev/sdc: 3001GB<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B<br>Partition Table: gpt<br>Disk Flags: <br><br>Number Start End Size File system Name Flags<br><br><br>Model: ATA ST3000DM001-1ER1 (scsi)<br>Disk /dev/sdd: 3001GB<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B<br>Partition Table: gpt<br>Disk Flags: <br><br>Number Start End Size File system Name Flags<br> 1 1049kB 3001GB 3001GB primary<br><br><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Robin Gilks<div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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