> stop the array > dd warning disk => new one > remove warning disk > assemble the array again with the new disk > > The inconvenience is that you don't have the array during the copy. Stopping the array and restarting it as readonly will give you access to the data while that copy is in progress. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@xxxxxxxx> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/ - 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