Let me know what you have done so far. Guy -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Greaves Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:32 PM To: Dick Streefland Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RAID5 - 2nd drive died whilst waiting for RMA Dick Streefland wrote: >David Greaves <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >| so, the plan in order to try and extract data: >| * insert new drive as /dev/sdd1 >| * dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdd1 >| * mdadm /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sda1 >| * physically swap /dev/sda and /dev/sdd so /dev/sdd >| * mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1 >| * fsck filesystem and expect to lose files where there were bad blocks >| * wait for new drive (special delivery - tomorrow morning) >| * insert new drive as /dev/sdd >| * mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdd1 > >You might want to check out "ddrescue", which is a version of "dd" >that is designed to read from a disk with bad sectors. > > That was it - thanks :) I was googling 'dd recover' and various 'badblocks' etc... not 'dd rescue' Also found dd_rhelp which looks sensible. fingers crossed that it works... David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
