Hello I got a big problem with replacing disk on Software-RAID. Whatever I do it just ends up as a spare disk. I guess the problem is that the faulty disk was not removed from the RAID. We just shut down and replace'd the disk. Any idea of how to solve this? Thanks in advance Jon DETAILS: xxxxx:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.00 Creation Time : Sat Jun 7 22:04:01 2008 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 490223232 (467.51 GiB 501.99 GB) Device Size : 245111616 (233.76 GiB 250.99 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sat Jun 7 22:04:01 2008 State : active, degraded Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K UUID : 7edd5dfe:14b3ffb2:304b0607:0d821dcd Events : 0.2 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 56 1 0 active sync /dev/hdi1 1 56 65 1 active sync /dev/hdj1 2 0 0 2 removed xxxxx:~# mdadm --version mdadm - v2.5.6 - 9 November 2006 xxxxx:~# uname -a Linux xxxxx 2.4.27-3-386 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx:~# cat /etc/debian_version Debian 4.0 -- 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