On Friday 06 Aug 2004 8:07 pm, Derek Listmail Acct wrote: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=200b > > This will fill the array with zeros, which isn't what I want to do. I'm > trying to verify the parity data for my raid 5 array is correct. I feel > one of my drives may be failing, and want to make sure the array is > consistent. Thats array verification, not scrubbing (which is erasing the disk) - 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