Example 5-5. Pairing A Spare Internal Disk With The Running System Disk - NEC Express5800/ftServer Administrator's Manual

Administering RAID Arrays
The duplex_blank_disk Command
The duplex_blank_disk command prompts you for all of the information required
to pair a spare disk with a running disk. You can run it by typing:
# /opt/ft/bin/duplex_blank_disk
In Example 5-5, the command prompts you for information that is needed to pair a
spare internal disk with the running system disk.

Example 5-5. Pairing a Spare Internal Disk with the Running System Disk

# /opt/ft/bin/duplex_blank_disk
Device Path ID of blank disk (e.g. 10/40/1 or 70/1): 11/40/1
Device node(s) for 11/40/1: /dev/sdd
Is this the correct blank disk device? (yes/no) y
Device Path ID of source disk (e.g. 10/40/1 or 70/1): 10/40/1
Device node(s) for 10/40/1: /dev/sda
Is this the correct source disk device? (yes/no) y
Source disk is partitioned: partitioning blank disk to match.
Source disk partition 1 belongs to RAID 1 /dev/md0.
Adding blank disk partition 1 to RAID 1 /dev/md0.
mdadm: hot added /dev/sdd1
Source disk partition 2 belongs to RAID 1 /dev/md2.
Adding blank disk partition 2 to RAID 1 /dev/md2.
mdadm: hot added /dev/sdd2
Source disk partition 3 belongs to RAID 1 /dev/md1.
Adding blank disk partition 3 to RAID 1 /dev/md1.
mdadm: hot added /dev/sdd3
Waiting for resync to complete before grubbing /dev/sdd1.
Grubbing /dev/sdd1
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