Re: RAID5 - 2nd drive died whilst waiting for RMA

[spam@altium.nl (Dick Streefland)]

David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> wrote:
| so, the plan in order to try and extract data:
| * insert new drive as /dev/sdd1
| * dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdd1
| * mdadm /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sda1
| * physically swap /dev/sda and /dev/sdd so /dev/sdd
| * mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1
| * fsck filesystem and expect to lose files where there were bad blocks
| * wait for new drive (special delivery - tomorrow morning)
| * insert new drive as /dev/sdd
| * mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdd1

You might want to check out "ddrescue", which is a version of "dd"
that is designed to read from a disk with bad sectors.

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