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Subject: Re: how to clone a disk
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:40:29 +0100
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>> 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.