Hi Jim, The other question I'd ask is why do you have 10 raid1 arrays on those two disks? Given you have an initramfs, at most you should have separate partitions (raid'd) for /boot & root. Everything else should be broken down using LVM. Way more flexible to move things around in future as required. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly out of control." -Unknown -- 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