Can I survive from 2 Disks Missing, 1 Disabled ?

[georgez]

It's unmountable, the 2 new disks are not formatted, do I have to format the new disk before assign it ?

[trurl]

That screenshot seems to say the array isn't started. Did you start it in Maintenance mode? The Check Filesystem Status section is normally below the part of the screen you showed in your screenshot.

[georgez]

Oh sorry I forgot to start it, here it is.

[trurl]

OK, that section seems to be missing, probably because it doesn't know what filesystem to expect.

 

Here is where I wish @JorgeB was around but he hasn't visited the forum in a few days.

 

I'm not sure what would happen if we changed the filesystem from auto to XFS, since normally setting a filesystem is what you do to format the disk.

 

Let's see if we can check from the command line.

 

xfs_repair -n /dev/md2

That should let us see if the emulated disk2 has an xfs filesystem on it but the -n (nomodify) won't do anything to it. Capture the results and post them.

[georgez]

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[georgez]

I also tried on disk 11, same result, does this mean I can fix the fs and make it mountable?


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[georgez]

OK, let's try

xfs_repair -n /dev/md11

Did it in the previous reply


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[trurl]

1 minute ago, georgez said:

does this mean I can fix the fs and make it mountable?

At this point I don't know what else to try but repair.

 

Do you know what should be on these disks?

[georgez]

At this point I don't know what else to try but repair.
 
Do you know what should be on these disks?

Yeah I know the contents on these disks, let me try to fix the fs. I’ll post the result.


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[trurl]

Do you have enough ports and bays to put the original disks 2 and 11 in and try to get a SMART report from them and possibly mount them as Unassigned Devices?

[georgez]

After I xfs_repaired md2 and md11, both disks are mounted. The disk11 seems being completely restored, but the disk2’s share folders are lost, fortunately they are recovered and put into lost+found folder, the contents inside share folders seem good. Is it now ok to rebuild now?


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[trurl]

4 minutes ago, georgez said:

Is it now ok to rebuild now?

Go for it.

[georgez]

Reconstruction in progress! Thank you very much trurl !


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[trurl]

56 minutes ago, georgez said:

Reconstruction in progress!

Let us know how it goes.

[georgez]

Let us know how it goes.

Array rebuilt successfully, thank you for your help!


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[trurl]

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