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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 560

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RAID Failure Reported

My Arch Linux system is reporting a failure when I login via Gnome. The system has the RAID partitions:

md0 = swap
md1 = /boot
md2 = /

When I login via Gnome, the system alerts me with a serious looking warning that one of two disks has multiple bad sectors on it. I fired up a terminal window and can't see what the issue is:

Personalities : [raid1] 
md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1]
      974365187 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
      
md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]
      393472 blocks [2/2] [UU]
      
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
      1999025 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

From the info above, everything reports fine and shows both disks on each partition to be UP/UP.

Here is the graphical disk utility reporting an error:

http://img813.imageshack.us/i/raidq.png/

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ghen

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2010-08-31

Posts: 124

Re: RAID Failure Reported

Look at the SMART output, or use smartmontools.

The disk probably has just a few bad sectors which it internally relocated, so the RAID arrays are still fine.  But it may be an indication that the drive is slowly dying, anyway.

I'm in the same situation and ordered a new disk straight away.

fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

Posts: 6,237

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Re: RAID Failure Reported

Yeah, sounds like SMART errors, not RAID.

Slightly OT: You may want to consider taking your swap off RAID: http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWT … html#ss2.3

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