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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: Ben Nemec <lists@nemebean.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Replacing a drive in RAID 0
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:14:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100803161456.31d0f69b@notabene> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1008030720540.19930@uplift.swm.pp.se>

On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 07:22:01 +0200 (CEST)
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Ben Nemec wrote:
> 
> > enough to do that, of course).  Can I just dd the entire drive over and
> > replace the bad drive?  Can the md tools do it somehow?  Maybe it's
> 
> Yes, you can binary copy the drive like that, that's what I usually do.

Of course you need to be sure that the old and new devices are exactly the
same size.  Normally they will but it is worth double checking that the
number of sectors (blockdev --getsize) is exactly the same.

NeilBrown

> 
> Use dd_rescue (or ddrescue, they are two different utils) instead of dd in 
> case you have any bad blocks.
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-03  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-02 22:18 Replacing a drive in RAID 0 Ben Nemec
2010-08-03  5:22 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-08-03  6:14   ` Neil Brown [this message]
2010-08-03  7:46     ` Roman Mamedov
2010-08-03  8:29       ` Neil Brown
2010-08-03 15:28         ` Ben Nemec
2010-08-05  6:59 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-08-05 14:51   ` Ben Nemec

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