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From: PFC <lists@peufeu.com>
To: "Paul M." <paul@gpmidi.net>, mingz@ele.uri.edu
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to clone a disk
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:40:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.s581hroxcigqcu@apollo13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd43dcfb0603110353g1a4d51f6y9fe4caa4007b6e9c@mail.gmail.com>


>> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-11 12:40 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 [this message]
2006-03-11 16:55     ` Mike Hardy
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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