Here's a little more info about my array. mdadm -D /dev/md2: /dev/md2: Version : 0.90 Creation Time : Wed Aug 5 22:07:37 2009 Raid Level : raid6 Array Size : 2930271872 (2794.53 GiB 3000.60 GB) Used Dev Size : 1465135936 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sat Apr 9 11:49:59 2011 State : clean, degraded, recovering Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Layout : left-symmetric-6 Chunk Size : 64K Rebuild Status : 0% complete UUID : 2a150668:a0e6267d:a6dd356e:c26679ce (local to host iblis) Events : 0.613692 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 49 0 active sync /dev/sdd1 1 8 33 1 active sync /dev/sdc1 2 8 81 2 active sync /dev/sdf1 4 8 65 3 spare rebuilding /dev/sde1 mdadm -E /dev/sde1: /dev/sde1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 2a150668:a0e6267d:a6dd356e:c26679ce (local to host iblis) Creation Time : Wed Aug 5 22:07:37 2009 Raid Level : raid6 Used Dev Size : 1465135936 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Array Size : 2930271872 (2794.53 GiB 3000.60 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 2 Update Time : Sat Apr 9 11:50:41 2011 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 1 Checksum : ccecf240 - correct Events : 613694 Layout : left-symmetric-6 Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 4 8 65 4 spare /dev/sde1 0 0 8 49 0 active sync /dev/sdd1 1 1 8 33 1 active sync /dev/sdc1 2 2 8 81 2 active sync /dev/sdf1 3 3 0 0 3 faulty removed 4 4 8 65 4 spare /dev/sde1 -- hatta00@xxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail -- 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