On Thursday September 11, Cristian.Banciu@eea.eu.int wrote: > Hi, > > I have done a software raid5 with 5 scci disks. Now I want to add one more disk to the current configuration without loosing data. But for some unkown reason the operation fails. Has anyone any idea why could I make this thing working ? > > Thank you very much! > > > #raidreconf -o /etc/raidtab -n /etc/raidtab.new -m /dev/md0 > Working with device /dev/md0 > Parsing /etc/raidtab > Parsing /etc/raidtab.new > Your on-disk array MUST be clean first. At a guess, you still have /dev/md0 active. Use "mdadm -S /dev/md0" or "raidstop /dev/md0" to stop it, then try again. 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