On Fri, July 24, 2009 4:49 am, Shane W wrote: > Hey all, > > Whenever my system boots, mdadm sends an email for a > sparesmissing event on all of my raid5 arrays. The arrays > are 5 disks in size with no spares. How do I tell mdadm > that there are in fact no spares nor should there be? Edit mdadm.conf. Remove "spares=1". 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