Hi. On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:53:29PM +0000, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I've got home mounted on a LVM partition over two RAID 1 arrays. Unfortunately > one of the disks in the second array has dropped out. I can still fdisk -l it, > but when I ran dd if=/dev/sdd1 of=/dev/null it got about 132M through a 2Tb > drive before crashing out. This doesn't bode well.
Indeed. Given that partition table is stored at the beginning of the disk - 'fdisk -l' is not the tool you should use in this case. Failing dd - that's bad indeed. > I can't really afford a new drive, but was wondering if I should just > reformat, > try and check it for errors and then try and add it back to the array? I was > hoping that doing that might allow it to exclude any bad blocks and get me > something working for a while whilst I save up. If I were you - I'd replaced this disk ASAP. But, there's no need to reformat the disk. Not just yet. Install smartmontools unless you did already. Run 'smartctl -t long /dev/sdd'. Wait the amount of time smartctl tells you. Post the result of 'smartctl --all /dev/sdd'. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150213133045.ga24...@d1696.int.rdtex.ru
