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. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
