On Tuesday August 9, mcuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hmm - Okay. If I do that, I get "/dev/sdr1 does not appear to be an md > device". If I add --force with this it doesn't seem to matter. > ... > From: "Mike Tran" <mhtran@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 4:29 PM > Subject: Re: How to force a spare drive to take over in a RAID5? > > > > You're on the right track :) mdadm --fail /dev/sdr should do. Ofcourse, What Mike meant was mdadm /dev/md4 --fail /dev/sdr NeilBrown - 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