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Re: Dying hard drive?



On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 08:59:05AM +0200, Veljko wrote:
> Do you guys have any advice for this? Should I first run dd on those drives.
> They are part of RAID, so it should be difficult to read data from one drive
> alone, but what is the best way to be sure? And obviously, I'll have to return
> more than one drive.

Running dd is fine, shred [options] /dev/sd? is even better.

Greg


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