Am 24.02.2010 18:09, schrieb Robin Hill: > If these are the only disks with up-to-date data, and sda4 is still > failing, I can only suggest stopping the array and using dd/dd_rescue to > copy sda4 onto a working disk. You should then be able to reassemble > the array with sdb4 and the new disk, then add in a hot spare to > recover. Currently sdd isn't in use at all. So I could mdadm --stop /dev/md4 ddrescue /dev/sda4 /dev/sdd4 mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md4 /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdd4 ?? Sorry for my explicit questions, I am rather stressed here ... S -- 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