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Recovery from disk failure

  • Create new partition of type "FD" and the same size on the new drive
  • Update /etc/raidtab to reflect new RAID disk, if device names changed
  • Insert new disk into the array:
    raidbox# raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1
  • Reconstruction starts in background, and RAID is restored to its normal mode.
  • That's all, folks.
Easy, yes? There is always a way to make things worse.