From: Philip Molter <philip@corp.texas.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The right way to recover from md partition failure?
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:17:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4133A769.5090408@corp.texas.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41339D1D.2040101@dgreaves.com>
David Greaves wrote:
> I think a better approach might be:
>
> mdadm /dev/md1 -r /dev/hde3
> dd if=/dev/hde3 of=/dev/null
> check logs for nasty errors and only continue if there weren't any :)
> mdadm /dev/md1 -a /dev/hde3
Normally, for this I:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hde3
dd if=/dev/hde3 of=/dev/null
The write will usually cause the hard drive to internally relocate any
bad sectors, which is usually what causes RAID failures on IDE drives
(in my experience).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-30 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-30 19:38 The right way to recover from md partition failure? Jonathan Baker-Bates
2004-08-30 20:14 ` Guy
2004-08-30 21:33 ` David Greaves
2004-08-30 21:50 ` Jonathan Baker-Bates
2004-08-30 22:11 ` David Greaves
2004-08-30 22:17 ` Philip Molter [this message]
2004-08-30 23:27 ` Guy
2004-08-30 21:44 ` Jonathan Baker-Bates
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