To answer the OP's question. "Tough. You WILL have lost data - maybe not everything."
You should have used RAID5 then the answer would have been: "take the dead disk out and put in a replacement, wait a few hours and you're good to go" Brandon Beattie wrote: quite a bit that I happen to disagree with including gems like: > Raid to several of us who run TB+ LVM's for a myth box >is a dumb idea. > No it's not. It depends what you want. Raid5 provides *redundancy* and protects your data from certain common failures (like a hard disk dying). It doesn't provide backups (but who really wants to backup a Tb of TV?) It's a fantastic solution if you want to keep recording and watching TV when a single drive (or 2 drives for RAID6) fails. There's no messing about shrinking filesystems, praying that the data lives on the 'right bit' of your LVM etc etc. Best of all you can (like me) combine raid5 and LVM to allow expansion (and shrinking - if you happen to be the one geek in the world who uses less disk space over time) and reallocation of space. David PS SMART is not psychic. It cannot tell your hard disk's future. It can only tell you that *it has started to die*. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
