On 2011-11-10 12:20, 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. ;)
I have tried this already. After cloning the disk with errors, I replaced it with the clone and tried to re-start the array using mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md1 mdadm assigned the new disk as a spare and said there were only three disks to start the array and so couldn't start it. After I clone the disk with the error, how precisely should I re-start the array? -- Chris Purves -- 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
