I added the damaged device again to the raid: /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Fri Feb 22 22:08:12 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 976630272 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Raid Devices : 6 Total Devices : 7 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Mar 21 15:50:39 2013 State : active, degraded, Not Started Active Devices : 5 Working Devices : 7 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 2 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Delta Devices : -1, (7->6) Name : server:0 (local to host server) UUID : 1db312ca:48cd4f30:e8607949:0c721b94 Events : 38267 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 49 0 active sync /dev/sdd1 1 8 1 1 active sync /dev/sda1 3 8 81 2 active sync /dev/sdf1 3 0 0 3 removed 5 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1 6 8 17 5 active sync /dev/sdb1 7 8 33 - spare /dev/sdc1 8 8 113 - spare /dev/sdh1 But now i have two spare drives. -- 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