On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 19:04 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > So: you might need to repartition the drive and make hde5 a > little bigger. Yup, that was precisely it. Rebooted to refresh the updated partition table, ran mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/hde5 and it's happily rebuilding as I write. Now I'll be a little better armed when the next drive fails (smartctl is already showing the signs...) Hurrah! Cheers, Gavin. -- 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