Re: trouble adding spare

Max Waterman wrote:

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If that does not work, clean the drive out manually after removing it as a spare from the array:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdi bs=1M

This is taking forever

I stopped it after about half an hour, hoping that it had made garbage of whatever was the problem.

I then added it into the array and it worked as before.

However, it still wasn't added when I rebooted.

...but, there is something different. Now, when I --examine /dev/sdi, it gives output for the whole array including 2 spares, which is the end result I expect :

Active Devices : 6
Working Devices : 8
Failed Devices : 0
 Spare Devices : 2

However, --detail /dev/md2 still denies /dev/sdi exists :

Active Devices : 6
Working Devices : 7
Failed Devices : 0
 Spare Devices : 1

What's up?

Max.