[Solved] Re: FC5 S/W Raid Rebuilding to Infiinity(and beyond!)

[Sean Bruno]

> You may want to do some additional testing to verify the status of the new 
> filesystem. In my original message I implied that fsck was sufficient, but as 
> Tony quite rightly pointed out, it isn't. On my failing disk I knew that the bad 
> block wasn't part of the active filesystem, so a simple copy/fsck was 
> sufficient. During the copy there were no errors, and a comparison of the two 
> filesystems showed no discrepancies.
> 
> When you copied your filesystem, did the system generate any error messages? If 
> so, you will probably want to investigate which file the bad block belonged to, 
> and determine the impact that having that file corrupted might cause, and 
> whether you can restore that file from a backup.
> 
At this point, I have recovered the user data that was lost and
committed the entire disk to a backup.  Once that is done, it's
reinstall time for me.

Sean