On Sat, 07 Feb 2009, 06:11:01 +0100, James D. Parra wrote:
[...] You can find a very good description about this at the following URL:
<http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~``
This looks great. Curiously, the examples show ext2/ext3, however will it work with XFS?
The "Repairs in a file system" part only covers ext2/3 and reiser; from that page: The authors would like to add text showing how to do this for other file systems, in particular XFS, and JFS: please email if you can provide this information. The "Repairs at the disk level" is independant from the file system you're using, of course. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes, I read that and thought the best course of action is to replace the drive. I have several questions on how to accomplish this without overwriting the data on the mirrored drive. Raid mdo (raid1) = sda1 - sdb1 mounted as /boot Raid md1 (raid1) = sda2 - sdb2 mounted as / When I replace the sda drive will the server still boot? How can I ensure that once sda is partitioned identically to sdb and the raid started that the empty space on sda1 & sda2 don't overwrite the live data on sdb1 & sdb2? Thank you for your help. James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org