It looks like you created a RAID1 with 1 disk. The "[U]" shows that. md1 : active raid1 hdc6[1] hda6[0] 6144704 blocks [1/1] [U] So, if you add more disks to the array they will be spares. But that will never work since you only have 1 disk in the array. A tool called Raidreconf allows you to add disks to a RAID5 array. I don't know if it supports RAID1 arrays. Guy -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sevatio Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:41 PM To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Kicking Non-Fresh From Array I can't figure out how to get a partition into a Raid1 array. Syslog tells me "kicking non-fresh hdc6 from array". Raidtab is set to assign /dev/hda6 & /dev/hdc6 to /dev/md1: raiddev /dev/md1 raid-level 1 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 nr-raid-disks 2 device /dev/hda6 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc6 raid-disk 1 But mdstat only shows hda6 for md1. Also, I tried raidhotadd but it doesn't show hdc6 as being active: md1 : active raid1 hdc6[1] hda6[0] 6144704 blocks [1/1] [U] How do I fix this to get hdc6 to join md1? Thanks, Sevatio - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html