On Sat, 13 May 2006, Ra�mez Cabrera wrote: > Hi Gordon, thanks for your quick response. > > Well my client does not want to spend more money on this particular > server, I think maybe that is because they are planning to replace it... Ask your client just how valuable their email data is... How badly broken is the drive? If it's just a bad sector then you may be able to resurect it - which will provide a degree of redundancy again util such time as the server can be replaced. If you use mdadm to remove all the md? partitions, (mdadm --remove /dev/md? /dev/sdb?) then you can run something like badblocks -w -s -c 128 /dev/sdb? etc. for every partition that was in the md? arrays. This will write to every sector and will force a sector re-allocate on bad sectors, if the drive supports it. You can then mdadm --add them back into the array. (Running a badblocks in standard read mode on the live partitions is always prudent at this point though just in-case you find another band sector there!) Gordon - 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
