> The beauty of that being that when all the drives > have been retired/failed and the smallest partition > size is now 500GB or whatever you can > --grow=max and get that unused space. > Thanks. That's a good idea, because I would eventually like to make the array larger than it is as the drives get replaced, one at a time. Would the command be: $ mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --size=max DEVICE1 DEVICE2 DEVICE3 DEVICE4 Felipe -- 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