On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Daniel Paul wrote: > But thats only a temporary solution, because I am not able to > construct a raid array again (I have no spare disk available > for moving the lots of data there). mkraid is refusing to > create an raid array with only one disk. You can use the 'failed disk trick' (it's in the how-to) to re-create the array with one disk marked as 'failed'. Then you can copy the data from the disk to the array (which will be running in degraded mode). In the end, you raidhotadd the initially 'failed' disk back to the array. D. PS: This is a bit simplified, check the how-to! If you really can't figure it out, contact me directly... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html