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Tue, 22 Aug 2006
Well the mythtv box has been running fine for 8 months or so but I noticed a couple of bad sectors appearing on one of my 300GB disks. Unfortunately they didn't get remapped transparently by spare sectors as modern hard disks are supposed to. The only thing for it was to remove the disk from the LVM set.
Since I am too cheap to use RAID (it's only TV after all) I backed up all the interesting stuff then deleted and recreated the volume. Luckily cacti caught all the action:
The discontinuities on Saturday morning was me trying to blow away the bad sectors with dd a la the Bad Blocks Howto without success. On Monday morning I deleted all the shows that I didn't want to backup, then recreated the logical volume. Then copied all the backups on to the new, 300GB smaller volume.
I don't think that hard disks should fail after 8 months, and the store is taking the broken one back without any fuss.
posted at: 09:32 | path: /pvr | permanent link to this entry