# Restore recovered offline log dirs without broker restart

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/restore-recovered-offline-log-dirs-without-broker-restart/561>\
**Category:** Ops\
**Created:** [4 February 2021 00:49 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/restore-recovered-offline-log-dirs-without-broker-restart/561 "2021-02-04T00:49:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [4 February 2021 00:49 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/restore-recovered-offline-log-dirs-without-broker-restart/561/1 "2021-02-04T00:49:52Z")

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Hi folks!

I’m doing some tests deploying a Kafka cluster with the JBOD strategy for log dirs. To simulate a failed disk, I removed Kafka’s user write and read permissions of the log dir (e.g.: /var/lib/kafka/data/disk1) in a broker, so this disk was marked as offline. After a while, I restored Kafka’s user permissions on the log dir, but it was not recognized as online automatically up until I restarted the broker.

So, is there any admin tool or command to restore a recovered offline log dir without a broker restart?

Thanks!