On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Chris Chabot wrote: > is there any way to create the array, and just mark these blocks bad in the > file system, as you would with a 'normal' drive? Not on RAID5. At least no easy way... You could possibly find out which filesystem blocks lay on the physically bad blocks and you could probably mark them as bad on the filesystem level. D. - 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