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sparky_john
Mar 13, 2018Aspirant
Disk shows Dead. Volume shows fine.
I have X-Raid with dual redundancy configured. A disk failed on me and I went to pull out the bad drive. Stupid me for not checking, but I pulled out disk 6 when disk 4 was the dead drive. I was n...
- Mar 20, 2018
There's no important data on the swap partition. That's just used for temporarily storing what's normally stored in RAM if the RAM doesn't have sufficient space.
So you can safely do what the error message suggested:
# mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdf2
then
# mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdf2
If sdf2 is marked as a spare in md1 (you can tell this by checking the output of # cat /proc /mdstat ) you can force it to be used properly by doing e.g.
# mdadm --grow /dev/md1 -n6
mdgm-ntgr
Mar 13, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
Have you tried clearing your web browser cache, closing your web browser and reopening Frontview?
Have you rebooted your system?
sparky_john
Mar 13, 2018Aspirant
Yes. I have tried different web browsers, computers, etc. Doesn't appear to be a cache issue.
I have restarted the system twice and still has the same status.
- StephenBMar 13, 2018Guru - Experienced User
Do you have a backup of the data?
- sparky_johnMar 13, 2018Aspirant
I have a backup of all the data that is critical. The rest can be re-imported, but it would be a pain.
- mdgm-ntgrMar 13, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
Have you downloaded the logs and checked those?
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