On Wednesday September 10, billw@ewaydirect.com wrote: > repost with different subject, previous subject line suggested this was an > answer, not a question. > > I have a drive marked as spare that I know is a synced member of a raid5. > I want to add it back into the array *without* a reconstruct, i.e. just > mark it as active and change it's position. You can't. You don't want to. The time you have spent waiting for a reply, you could have more productively spent waiting for the resync to complete. It probably would have completed by now. (Well, actually you can by changing about 1 line in mdadm and re-creating the array, but I'm not going to tell you which line because I really don't think you want to do it. I think mkraid has an option that lets you do this, and I don't recommend mkraid, and if you figure out how to do it, and do it, and you loose you data, then just remember that I told you that you didn't want to, and I apologise for telling you about mkraid...) NeilBrown - 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
