On Wed Aug 24, 2011 at 12:39:38 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:18:12 -0400 Mike Viau <viaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > I am not sure how crack-pot of a solution this would be, but could I:
> >
> > 1/ mdadm -r /dev/md0 /dev/sde1
> > Remove /dev/sde1 from the raid 5 array
>
> Here you have lost your redundancy .... your choice I guess.
>
> >
> > 2/ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde1 bs=512 count=1
> > This clears the msdos mbr and clears the partitions
> >
> > 3/ parted, fdisk or cfdisk to create a new 1TB (or less is possible as well) ext4 partition on /dev/sde
> >
> > 4/ mkfs.ext4 /dev/sde1
> >
> > 5/ cp -R {mounted location of degraded /dev/md0 partition} {mounted location of /dev/sde1 partition}
> > Aka backup
> >
If you're wanting to backup, "cp -a" would be better than "cp -R",
otherwise you lose attributes & symlinks.
Cheers,
Robin
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