[Tfug] raid help

[Brian Murphy]

Quoting ray reeves <rays51ford at yahoo.com>:
> I have a nice raid1 array the has been running for some time. A while
> ago the swap file on one drive became corrupted or otherwise not usable.
> As a result my system has no swap file to use and memory often is
> exceeded. I'd like a howto to either disassemble the raid array or to
> fix the one drive (sda) that has the error.
>
> Any help is appreciated.


If a swap partition becomes corrupted, just use mkswap to reformat it
and then swapon to activate it.  It shouldn't matter that the swap
partition is mirrored or not.  Both commands have man pages.

Brian

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