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Old 02-12-2009, 09:11 PM   #1
rguyler
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Sarge corrupted raid 1, forced fsck stops checking


The power in my house was bouncing like a basketball last night and my Sarge box running raid 1 crashed and burned. It comes up and says the array is corrupt, which is expected and happened before. And as expected the fs is dirty and it forces a fsck. The bummer is that the fsck halts at 9.2% each time and won't go any further.

I thought maybe I could just bring it up on only a single drive and not try to bring it up with the raid 1 (using md by the way) and see if the fsck can complete then sync the raid afterwards. However, I don't really know how to do that really. Anybody have some helpful hints or can point me in the right direction? I've googling this this but haven't yet found what I need.

TIA

Rik
 
Old 02-12-2009, 09:41 PM   #2
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Boot from a Live-CD (Knoppix, Ubuntu), mount the drives, chroot into Sarge (you really should have updated that to Etch by now!), then disassemble the RAID array and mount one disk. Run fsck on that, then repeat on the other disk. Reboot from disk 1, w/o the RAID array. If that succeeds, assemble the RAID again. Other option: have both disks fsck'd from the Live-CD, still one at a time (disassemble the array if it fails). Best of luck!
 
  


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