[CentOS] Identifying physical disks

Sat Apr 30 09:34:47 UTC 2011
Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>

2011/4/30 Jussi Hirvi <listmember at greenspot.fi>:
> I am sure this is really simple.
>
> I have a setup of 2 disks (sda, sdb) which are outwardly identical, and
> are mirrors of each other. Together they form 3 raid1 devices. Both
> disks can boot.
>
> Now sda has bad sectors, and I should replace it. But which one of the
> physical disks is sda??

take look at serial number using smartctl

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/using-smartctl-to-get-smart-status-information-on-your-hard-drives/1389

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Eero