My God, the command is not working. I need to remove sdb1 from md0 so I can change it from a RAID10 to RAID1, and it simply ignores my command: # mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sdb1 --remove /dev/sdb1 # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath] md2 : active raid10 sdb3[1] 1868560128 blocks super 1.2 64K chunks 2 offset-copies [2/1] [_U] bitmap: 94/446 pages [376KB], 2048KB chunk md1 : active raid10 sdb2[1] 6297344 blocks super 1.2 64K chunks 2 offset-copies [2/1] [_U] bitmap: 0/25 pages [0KB], 128KB chunk md0 : active raid10 sdb1[1] 78654080 blocks super 1.2 64K chunks 2 offset-copies [2/1] [_U] bitmap: 76/151 pages [304KB], 256KB chunk unused devices: <none> # My system is half-converted and is now unbootable. What am I going to do? -- 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