Lamont R. Peterson wrote: > 4. Are there better ways I could have handled this (other than the obvious > like RAID to start with, etc.)? Hi Lamont, I strongly suggest to use: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ to monitor all disks. In most cases you get warnings about problems with your disks weeks before they fail completely. > A few months ago, I started seeing some unreadable sectors on the 45GB drive. ... but you have to take it seriously :-) Dieter. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/