2009/9/19 Majed B. <majedb@xxxxxxxxx>: > If you're going to take all your data out, I would suggest you do a > clean start and zero out all the disks to force the remapping of bad > sectors, then run smartctl -t offline on all disks and after it's done > (it will take A LONG time), create your filesystem on an array and put > back your data. I'd recommend running the badblocks program on each device to be put in the array too, just to be certain that none of your disks are going to go horribly flakey on assembly and build... I'm not sure if the offline smart test does a full scan like badblocks would. T -- 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
