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From: Mike Hardy <mhardy@h3c.com>
To: PFC <lists@peufeu.com>
Cc: "Paul M." <paul@gpmidi.net>,
	mingz@ele.uri.edu, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to clone a disk
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:55:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4413011F.30709@h3c.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.s581hroxcigqcu@apollo13>


I can think of two things I'd do slightly differently...

Do a smartctl -t long on each disk before you do anything, to verify
that you don't have single sector errors on other drives

Use ddrescue for better results copying a failing drive

-Mike

PFC wrote:
> 
>>> I have a raid5 array that contain 4 disk and 1 spare disk. now i saw one
>>> disk have sign of going fail via smart log.
> 
> 
>     Better safe than sorry... replace the failing disk and resync,
> that's all.
> 
>     You might want to do "cat /dev/md# > /dev/null", or "cat /dev/hd? 
> 
>> /dev/null" first. This is to be sure there isn't some yet-unseen bad  
> 
> sector on some other drive which would screw your resync.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-11 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-11  0:56 how to clone a disk Ming Zhang
2006-03-11 11:53 ` Paul M.
2006-03-11 12:40   ` PFC
2006-03-11 16:55     ` Mike Hardy [this message]
2006-03-11 22:09       ` Ming Zhang
2006-03-11 23:08         ` Mike Hardy
2006-03-11 23:10           ` Ming Zhang
2006-03-11 22:08   ` Ming Zhang
2006-03-12  0:15     ` dean gaudet
2006-03-12  0:22       ` Ming Zhang
2006-03-12  0:31         ` dean gaudet
2006-03-12  0:36           ` Ming Zhang
2006-03-12  0:47             ` dean gaudet
2006-03-12  0:54               ` Ming Zhang

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