From: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>
To: Guy <bugzilla@watkins-home.com>
Cc: "'B. J. Zolp'" <bjzolp@wisc.edu>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID5 Not coming back up after crash
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:29:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041130212925.GA14220@janus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411291741.iATHf0N05834@www.watkins-home.com>
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:40:54PM -0500, Guy wrote:
>
> Also, it is common for a disk to grow bad spots over time. These bad spots
> (sectors) can be re-mapped by the drive to a spare sector. This re-mapping
> will occur when an attempt is made to write to the bad sector. So, you can
> repair your disk by writing to the bad sectors. But, be careful not to
> overwrite good data. I have done this using dd.
If you know the pathname of the file containing the bad spot (and have a copy
of the file then you could use shred(1):
NAME
shred - delete a file securely, first overwriting it to hide its con-
tents
SYNOPSIS
shred [OPTIONS] FILE [...]
...
--
Frank
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-30 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-29 16:33 RAID5 Not coming back up after crash B. J. Zolp
2004-11-29 17:40 ` Guy
2004-11-30 21:29 ` Frank van Maarseveen [this message]
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2004-11-29 22:29 Guy
2004-11-30 5:38 ` B. J. Zolp
2004-11-30 5:45 ` Neil Brown
2004-11-30 5:48 ` B. J. Zolp
2004-11-30 5:54 ` Neil Brown
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