[arch-general] dmraid disk failure - howto rebuild new disk - gparted hates Me :-(

[David C. Rankin]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> Listmates,
> 
> 	My Seagate drives are dropping like flies with less than 1400 hours of run
> time. (that's less than 58 days of service!) 
<snip>
> 
> 	That's pretty much where I am now. My next thought is to just use dd to copy
> the partitions over. I have opensuse on the sda/sdc array (mapper
> nvidia_fdaacfde), so the drives I am working with are not mounted anywhere and
> should be easy to work with.
> 
> 	What says the brain trust? Can you think of any way I was screwing up gparted
> so it wouldn't even format the copy partitions? What about the dd method? Any
> hints or gotchas? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
> 

Ok, I decided on:

	dd bs=100M conv=notrunc if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdd

I'll let you know how it comes out ;-)

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