John R Pierce wrote:
Mike Kercher wrote:
I got an email from smartd yesterday with the following error:
SMART Health Status: SERVO IMPENDING FAILURE SEEK ERROR RATE TOO HIGH [asc=5d,ascq=43]
I understand this means the drive is probably going to fail. This device is /dev/sda and is part of /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
Is it possible to replace the single failing drive and if so, what would be the steps so that data isn't lost.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/removeadisk.html
/dev/sda, is that your boot device? that will greatly complicate things... and, your swap is probably not under LVM, /boot certainly isn't so there's moer on that drive than just part of VolGroup00
I think I'd opt for plan B... install an identical new drive on another SCSI unit, boot a standalone live CD, and DD image the whole raw physical drive /dev/sda, then swap this new drive to SCSI unit 0 and remove the failed one.
I discovered recently that getting exactly the same size (I am using ATA) can be difficult, and two drives "the same size" can differ by a few sectors.
I'm sure bigger is okay, smaller is not (but you might be able to fiddle with /boot and/or dispense with the swap partition. I prefer swap files anyway))