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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> > David C. Rankin wrote:
> > > Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> > > > But why not just use the Install/Repair CD and partition
> > > > your new sda properly, and make sda5 type swap again?
> > >     Both sdb and sdc are fully partitioned in the hardware raid with:
> > >
> > > /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdb_part1
> > >                          69972     15457     50902  24% /boot
> > > /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdb_part2
> > >                       20641788   5114476  14478672  27% /
> > > /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdb_part3
> > >                      219648612  12348660 196142408   6% /home
> > What does any of that have to do with sda?
>
> Aaron,
>
>         sda was experiencing unrecoverable disc errors. It was dying and had to
> be replaced. That's what started this thread. The raid above doesn't
> contain swap and I didn't want to just remove sda and risk screwing up
> the raid created out of sdb and sdc by trying to repartition the discs
> in the raid array to try and shoehorn a swap partition on them.
>
>         The downside is rebuilding the entire system again if something goes
> wrong and I don't have the time to jack with it. I'm not just talking
> about reloading the system, I'm talking about dhcp dyn dns postfix
> procmail mysql etc.. It may be easy and the partitioning may work, but
> it was a whole lot easier just to put a healthy sda in create swap and go...

That's what I would do.

Replace the failing disk,
partition it properly,
and resume computing.


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