Re: Looking for some advice on best way to identify drives / recover from issues

[Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>]

Good afternoon Dylan,

On 01/05/2014 10:04 AM, Dylan Distasio wrote:
> Hi all-

[trim /]

> Unfortunately, I did not take the time to physically label the drives
> in the box (there are close to 20) as I built these, and had been
> meaning to, but life got in the way.  Since I have had no issues with
> these arrays in a very long time, I don't even remember if I split
> them across controllers or what.

[trim /]

> Will that give me enough info to figure out which drive belongs to
> which array?  Does anyone have any other suggestions?  I am not sure
> of the current state of ANY of the arrays that were on this box, but I
> don't want to make things worse by booting this system up with some
> drives missing because I've unplugged them, and having the a bad
> situation get worse.

I created a script for precisely this type of documentation task, keyed
to drive serial numbers and UUIDs wherever identifiable.

https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv

(If any of your drive serial numbers are entirely numeric, you'll want
the patch shown in the open issues)

HTH,

Phil