Greets, in a customer-server I run these arrays: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md1 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] 104320 blocks [2/2] [UU] md3 : active raid5 sdd3[3](S) sdc3[2] sdb3[1] sda3[0] 15647104 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] md4 : active raid5 sdd4[3](S) sdc4[2] sdb4[1] sda4[0] 471941376 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] So far everything OK. -- smartctl shows for /dev/sdb: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 058 039 000 Old_age Always - 146754005 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 13 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 13 (relevant lines as far as I understand ...) So I have these 13 pending sectors ... I assume it would be good to swap sdb for safety? This would mean: * fail sdb * wait for the spare to be synced ... which I fear somehow (I once lost an array as a second drive dropped out while resync ...) * change sdb * re-add sdb correct? I also read of a way of removing and re-adding a drive to get rid of these sectors? Is this a recommended thing to do? What would you recommend me to do? Thank you, Stefan -- 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