On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Steven Bellovin wrote:
I'm using RAIDFRAME in a RAID 1 configuration. One of the disks
has failed and needs to be replaced; the question is how,
precisely, I do it. More specifically, how do I prepare the new
disk? My assumption is that I have to set up the proper fdisk
label (including the boot block); I then have to use disklabel to
make the 'e' partition of type RAID. The last thing I should do is
use 'raidctl -R' to reconstruct the RAID set.
Do I need to do anything else? Do I need to do something to
initialize the replacement disk's RAID stuff?
A cheap hack is to use dd to copy the first few sectors (i.e.
including mbr code, fdisk partition table and diskabel) from one
disk to the other.
Then use raidctl -a, raidctl -F, etc. to rebuild the array.