Am 29.08.2011 10:00, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 29.08.2011 09:51, schrieb Mathias Burén: > >> Maybe running badblocks on the sector range (or over the whole HDD, >> but in non-read-write mode it takes quite a while longer) will do the >> trick. > > I currently run "badblocks -n -s /dev/VG01/my_lv" ... we'll see Switched over to dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/VG01/my_lv bs=4096 This executed without error (wrote ~20GB) and now when I check with: smartctl -a /dev/sda I get 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Sounds good to me! Right? So now I could re-add /dev/sdb4 to retry syncing that array, correct? Stefan -- 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