On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Brendan Conoboy <blc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why not partition? It's possible to create a floating spare, but it doesn't > really make sense for the configuration you've described. Just add > identical partitions on sdd and include the respective partitions on each of > your array creation commands. OK so you're just saying all I should change is partition /dev/sdd as I did the rest? I don't however need to format this when installing my Linux O.S., correct? I should just skip formatting and mount point assignment since it's a hot spare? -- 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