Panic over. Apart from the fact I made a fool of myself, I have nothing to worry about! I simply do a search and replace of all my mails in this thread and replace RAID-0 with RAID-1 :) [andrew@k2 ~]$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] 488383936 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> [andrew@k2 ~]$ -- 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