On Thu Nov 10, 2011 at 05:20:03PM +0100, Alexander Kühn wrote:
> ddrescue to the rescue!
> Get a another new disk, then ddrescue the one with the read error to
> the new disk.
> Assemble the array using the new disk instead of the one with the read error.
> You will loose the blocks that can't be read of course.
> And in the future do run raid check/scrubbing at regular intervals. ;)
> Alex.
>
You may be better cloning the original failed disk - that way it will
have a chance of actually recovering the read error (rather than having
to lose the blocks). It depends on why/how/when the original disk failed
though.
Cheers,
Robin
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