On 07/27/2016 09:22 AM, Phil Turmel wrote: > I always place of=/dev/.... last on a dd command line just in case. > > Using dd to write near the end of a member device is entirely safe while > running if the location is after the "Used Data Area"+"Data Offset" of > the device, as reported by mdadm --examine. > > If you are zeroing a backup GPT that has corrupted part of your data > inside the data area, it doesn't do any additional harm. So don't > bother using --fail and --remove on the member devices. I wondered about that, but I figured it was safer to take the drive out of the array and operate on each separately. One more chunk of good learning that has come out of this thread for me. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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
