Hi I made a raid10,f2 arrray (actually 2 arrays) with only one active disk, one missing. This was after 2 disks were found faulty, and I then copied the data from my faulty raid to the new raid, and installed my other new 2 TB disk. I added the new disk with mdadm /dev/md9 --add /dev/sdg1 and it was then listed as a spare. I wanted to activate it, and thought that --add ing it would automatically start resyncing, but no... I then tried to force resyncing by mdadm -A /dev/md9 --update resync but it did not work either. Now I am lost. How do I activate the spare? kernel 2.6.12 mdadm v1.12.0 best regards keld -- 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