[linux-lvm] Drive failure
Urs Thuermann
urs at isnogud.escape.de
Sun May 18 13:24:02 UTC 2003
"B. J. Zolp" <bjzolp at wisc.edu> writes:
> I'm doing a
> dd bs=512 conv=noerror,sync if=/dev/hdf of=/dev/null
> right now. It has been going for a few hours, but does not seem to be taking
> up any cpu cycles (it looks hung up). I will let it go over night and see
> how it is tomorrow. What would you suggest I do if the I can only get the
> data on the HD up until the bad sector (or where ever it is hung up). This
> is the last drive in the logical volume, so there was not too much data on
> it, but how would I go about added the new replacement drive to the logical
> volume without messing up my entire filesystem?
You could also try dd_rescue(1), which was written, AFAIR, by Kurt
Garloff. You should find it using Google.
urs
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