David Greaves wrote: Before checking the list this morning and seeing Neil had replied... Anyhow - consider what I said about the disk failure issues and be careful with Neil's incantation if the only copy of the data is on those potentially flakey drives. If things aren't clear to you then feel free to answer my questions before doing anything you later regret :) cheers David -- 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