linux-raid@ied.com said: > Can you please share with us newbies why using "smartctl" in such > situation is foolish, so we don't make the same mistake ? SMART is a way to determine the health of hard disks, and smartctl is part of the smartmontools suite that is used under linux to assess the SMART status of disks. What was foolish was me provoking /dev/hde by asking it to report diagnostics with smartctl at the same time the array was rebuilding /dev/hdg. Even if something _was_ wrong with hde, it wouldn't have helped me to find out then during the rebuild. Had the resync completed, I'd have all my data now and one dead disk. The question remains: What's the best way to get at the mostly unharmed data on hdg from before the rebuild started? I know it's there. Jason - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
