On Saturday January 5, nagilum@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Since /dev/hdb5 has been part of this array before you should use > --re-add instead of --add. > Kind regards, > Alex. That is not correct. --re-add is only needed for arrays without metadata, for which you use "--build" to start them. 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