Identifying a bigger issue
Earlier while using mdadm
to look at the current status of md127
, we could see that the RAID device md127
had a disk removed from service. While looking through /proc/mdstat
we discovered that there is another RAID device /dev/md126
, and that too has a disk removed from service.
Another interesting item that we can see is that the RAID device /dev/md126
is a surviving disk: /dev/sda1
. This is interesting because the surviving disk for /dev/md127
is /dev/sda2
. If we remember from the earlier chapter /dev/sda1
and /dev/sda2
are simply 2 partitions from the same physical disk. Given the fact that both RAID devices have a missing drive and that our logs state that /dev/md127
had /dev/sdb1
removed and re-added. It is likely ...
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