Can I trust parity or should I rebuilt?


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The following is copied from another thread that details how to remove a disk without losing parity.   VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:  The command shown will write zeroes to the selected drive (while maintaining parity) ... be CERTAIN you have selected the correct drive.     When the operation completes (it will take a few hours, as it's writing every sector on the drive), that drive will be all zeroes -- which means you can remove it and parity will still be valid.

 

While this is not any quicker than just doing a parity sync, it DOES provide a method to remove drives without impacting parity ... so you can then safely do a New Config without the zeroed drive(s) and check the "Parity is already valid" box.

 

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If you really want to remove a drive and leave parity undisturbed, this will work:

1. Start array in Maintenance mode.  This ensures no file systems are mounted.

2. Identify which disk you're removing, let's say it's disk3.  Take a screen shot.

3. From the command line type:

 

dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md3   <-- 'md3' here corresponds to 'disk3'
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