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From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: Felipe Kich <fkich1977@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help in recovering a RAID5 volume
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:32:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5824AF21.70604@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5824A918.3030300@youngman.org.uk>

On 10/11/16 17:06, Wols Lists wrote:
> Add in the fourth disk - it'll trigger a rebuild, but that's normal.
> 
Just had a thought. Especially if you get larger drives, and you can
identify and copy just the three good disks, then don't bother with the
bad one.

Just partition the new fourth disk the way you plan to do it, and then
add it back in. You can then use the utilities to re-arrange the other
drives.

Or, and it's a bit more work, partition the new drives the way you want,
and ddrescue the old drives partition by partition, rather than a drive
at a time. But it'll save moving the partitions around later.

Cheers,
Wol


  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-10 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-10 15:41 Help in recovering a RAID5 volume Felipe Kich
2016-11-10 17:06 ` Wols Lists
2016-11-10 17:32   ` Wols Lists [this message]
2016-11-10 17:47   ` Felipe Kich
2016-11-10 18:58     ` Wols Lists
2016-11-22 16:12       ` Felipe Kich

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