HowtoForge: Replacing a Failed Hard Drive In a Software RAID1 Array | Linux Today

HowtoForge: Replacing a Failed Hard Drive In a Software RAID1 Array

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
Jan 31, 2007

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“This guide shows how to remove a failed hard drive from a Linux
RAID1 array (software RAID), and how to add a new hard disk to the
RAID1 array without losing data…

“In this example I have two hard drives, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb,
with the partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 as well as /dev/sdb1
and /dev/sdb2…”

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