So I was trying to copy over some Indiana Jones wav files and it wasn't going my way. I noticed that my software raid device showed: /dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) Is this saying that it was remounted, read only because it found a problem with the md1 meta device? That's what it looks like it's saying but I can still write to /. mdadm --detail showed: root@recoil:/home/illsci# mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Mon Jul 30 21:47:14 2007 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 1951744 ( 1906.32 MiB 1998.59 MB) Device Size : 1951744 (1906.32 MiB 1998.59 MB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 1 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Dec 19 12:59:56 2007 State : clean, degraded Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : 157f716c:0e7aebca:c20741f6 :bb6099c9 Events : 0.28 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 0 0 1 removed root@recoil:/home/illsci# mdadm --detail /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Mon Jul 30 21:47:47 2007 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 974808064 (929.65 GiB 998.20 GB) Device Size : 974808064 (929.65 GiB 998.20 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 1 Preferred Minor : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Dec 19 13:14:53 2007 State : clean, degraded Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : 156a030e:9a6f8eb3:9b0c439e:d718e744 Events : 0.1990 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2 1 0 0 1 removed I have two 1 terabyte sata drives in this box. From what I was reading wouldn't it show an F for the failed drive? I thought I would see that /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2 were failed and it would show an F. What is this saying and how do you know that its /dev/sdb and not some other drive? It shows removed and that the state is clean, degraded. Is that something you can recover from with out returning this disk and putting in a new one to add to the raid1 array? Thanks, Jonathan - 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