[plug] raid 0 and bad blocks

[Bill Kenworthy]

figured it out, do it at the md level

BillK


On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 09:13, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> Hi need some idea as to what options I have.
> 
> I have two IBM 60g (deathstars?) harddrives set as raid 0, with
> reiserfs  Other than some odd things (one ide cable falling out etc)
> they have been fine - over 3 years and still on the original install.
> 
> However, one drive has developed a bad block area in a critical spot,
> and because of the raid 0, I have no idea how to map it out of the
> raid.  My options as I see it are to make space on another machine and
> dd the data off (/usr = ~45G) and somehow reconstitute that raid
> partition around the bad block list - but how?  Can it be done without
> taking the data off (finding room for 45G  of data is possible, but its
> a pain)
> 
> I will be getting some new disks I think, but need to limp along for
> now.
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> 
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