how can I create raid 5 array that preserves the contents of a given disk (part of the array)? I can do that in two steps, raid 5 on two disks then reshape it to be real raid5, but is there a direct way to do it? saeed - 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