Hi, What am I forgetting to do? I had a RAID1 using sd{a,b,c}3. I stopped md3, removed the md3 line in /etc/mdadm.conf, deleted the partitions using fdisk, and then created 5 new partitions using sd{a,b,c,d,e}3 to get ready to do a 5 disk RAID6. The new partitions are the same size as the old ones and located at the same sector addresses. After rebooting, but before creating the new RAID6, I still see md3: mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md6 : active raid1 sdb6[1] sdc6[2] sda6[0] 247416933 blocks super 1.1 [3/3] [UUU] md3 : active raid1 sdc3[2] sdb3[1] sda3[0] 52436096 blocks [3/3] [UUU] md5 : active raid1 sdc5[2] sdb5[1] sda5[0] 52436032 blocks [3/3] [UUU] unused devices: <none> mark@c2stable ~ $ What am I doing wrong or forgetting? I would like md3 to be totally gone before I create a new md3 in it's place. Thanks, Mark -- 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