Am 11.08.2010 13:09, schrieb Neil Brown: > As I thought, mdadm.conf says to expect 2 spares, but there is really only > one. Just edit the file and the message will stop. Yes, now it's all fine, thanks! But mdadm --examine --scan --verbose still shows spares=2: ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=7aa24776:9d6e8d24:54307b3d:1949437b spares=2 devices=/dev/sdc3,/dev/sdc,/dev/sdb3,/dev/sdb,/dev/sda3,/dev/sda ...although mdadm.conf was updated: grep -A1 md2 /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf ARRAY /dev/md2 UUID=7aa24776:9d6e8d24:54307b3d:1949437b spares=1 Tobi -- 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