[BlueOnyx:11167] MDADM / FDISK problem

[Richard Morgan]

Hi

I've got a bit of a problem with disks.  It was reporting a disk failure, but when I replaced the faulty disk last week it didn't do the RAID rebuild.

I run: cat /proc/mdstat

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Personalities : [raid1] 
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0]
      511988 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [U_]
      
md1 : active raid1 sda2[0]
      243625852 blocks super 1.1 [2/1] [U_]
      bitmap: 2/2 pages [8KB], 65536KB chunk

unused devices: <none>
---

To back that up, mdadm is showing it's removed from the array.  I run: mdadm -D /dev/md0

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/dev/md0:
        Version : 1.0
  Creation Time : Thu Mar  1 17:48:50 2012
     Raid Level : raid1
     Array Size : 511988 (500.07 MiB 524.28 MB)
  Used Dev Size : 511988 (500.07 MiB 524.28 MB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 1
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent

    Update Time : Mon Aug 13 06:00:56 2012
          State : clean, degraded 
 Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 1
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

           Name : localhost.localdomain:0
           UUID : 1b0e89cf:e18f09e5:88ce2215:a0099d63
         Events : 160

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       8        1        0      active sync   /dev/sda1
       1       0        0        1      removed
---

Now here's the point: the fdisk command is showing a sector problem on /dev/sda - maybe it's nothing to do with /dev/sdb.

I run: fdisk /dev/sda, the 'p' to print the partition table.  I get:

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Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006751a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          64      512000   fd  Linux raid autodetect
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              64       30395   243627008   fd  Linux raid autodetect
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As you can see sector 64 is used by two partitions.  Is this a problem and how do I rectify it?  Is this what is stopping the RAID rebuild?

Apologies for the long post, but I had to provide some background.  Many thanks indeed for the answers.

Regards, Richard
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