From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: spam@altium.nl (Dick Streefland) Subject: Re: RAID5 - 2nd drive died whilst waiting for RMA Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:22:47 -0000 Message-ID: <6775.4194e357.6922c@altium.nl> References: <41948B65.3090504@dgreaves.com> <41948B65.3090504@dgreaves.com> <4194A9E9.70003@dgreaves.com> Reply-To: dick.streefland@altium.nl (Dick Streefland) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids David Greaves 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. -- Dick Streefland //// Altium BV dick.streefland@altium.nl (@ @) http://www.altium.com --------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo---------------------------