On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Hong Tian wrote:

> If one disk of Raid 5 is found bad, Could I just replace the bad disk and
> recover the system and data? Or Should I re-install the Linux system from
> scratch again and recover the data from the backup?

The idea of RAID-5 is to survive this. Assuming you've only lost one disk
then you should be able to plug in the spare and they system should
rebuilt the data from the paratiy bits on the other disks.

Rgds

Rus

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