You must resize the partition now. The device that the partition on is now about 500Gb, but the partition is still 250Gb. If you're partition is ext2 or ext3, you can use resize2fs. A word of caution for you. I've used this utility many times, and it is necessary to do a e2fsck -f on the partition to be resized BOTH before and after. The program itself will require you to do it before. If you skip doing it after resize2fs completes, you will almost assuredly ruin your filesystem. I've skipped the fsck after the resize2fs myself 2-3 times, and it killed the filesystem every time. TJ Harrell - 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