exchanging a defective drive in a software RAID

setup: server with configured software RAID1 and LVM. If you have configured mdadm monitoring correctly you might receive an email like the following one day: A Fail event had been detected on md device /dev/md/0. It could be related to component device /dev/sda1. This requires immediate action because one of your hard disks is possibly broken. # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sda2[0](F) sdb2[1] 2929739071 blocks super 1....

June 30, 2013 · 3 min

Hetzner, Debian 7.0 Wheezy, Xen, LVM, Routing, zusätzliche IP-Adressen

## im Rescuesystem von Hetzner installimage #ruft den Installer von Hetzner auf # dort dann Debian > Debian-70-wheezy-64-minimal auswaehlen # folgende Config fuer Software-RAID 1 mit LVM verwenden DRIVE1 /dev/sda DRIVE2 /dev/sdb SWRAID 1 SWRAIDLEVEL 1 BOOTLOADER grub HOSTNAME HIER_NAME_EINSETZEN PART /boot ext2 512M PART lvm vg0 all LV vg0 root / ext4 50G LV vg0 swap swap swap 4G IMAGE /root/.oldroot/nfs/install/../images/Debian-70-wheezy-64-minimal.tar.gz # den Editor verlassen (zweimal Escape und abspeichern), dann wird installiert # danach reboot und login mit den Credentials vom Rescuesystem # (eventuell muss man ssh-keygen -f "/home/user/....

June 4, 2013 · 2 min