[mythtv-users] Consequences of drive failure

[Mike Perkins]

Okay. So I've discovered that one of the two 500Gb drives in my recording 
storage group is failing, enough that I'm getting jumps during playback and 
indecipherable error messages in dmesg.

I've ascertained that there is enough auto-expirable files in the system that I 
can run on one drive until the newly-ordered ones arrive next week, so I've 
pulled the SATA cable. It's not comfortable, but doable, and the alternative is 
writing fresh recordings to a dying disk.

My question is, how does the system react when you take half the recordings 
away? They are all still present in the database, but is there any indication 
that they are or are not available for watching?

I have ordered /two/ replacement drives. I plan to copy all recordings from both 
old drives to the new ones, then keep the good 'old' drive as a spare.

Edit: It's not so easy as pulling out a SATA plug... fsck throws conniptions 
when you next boot... I've had to edit fstab as well.

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Mike Perkins