[CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Thu May 21 15:41:08 UTC 2009


on 5-21-2009 1:18 AM Daniel Bird spake the following:
>>> dd is a good idea. I'll dd these disks and try with the images.
>>>
>>>     
>> If you DD the entire drive, here is a howto I found for mounting the partition
>> you want from the image.
>>
>> http://www.nerdparadise.com/tech/linux/diskbackup/
> Thanks Scott,
> That was going to be my next question! ;-)
> 
> D
You can also just dd from the partition you want if just for recovery. It
makes it easier to loopback mount several partitions. I used to do this
occasionally when I took some forensics work at the local PD. Long before the
certs were even heard of, much less available.

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