On November 12, jean-rene.cormier@cipanb.ca wrote: > And here's my /proc/mdstat: > > Personalities : [raid1] [raid5] > read_ahead 1024 sectors > md0 : active raid1 hdg1[2] hde1[0] > 60051456 blocks [2/1] [U_] > [=>...................] recovery = 6.9% (4162176/60051456) > finish=30.2min speed=30762K/sec > unused devices: <none> > > It seems to be rebuilding but will it stay marked as a spare drive or > will it take over the main faulty drive after it's done rebuilding? > Wait 30.2 minutes and see? It should mark it as a fully active drive, no longer spare. 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