Hi again, all -- ...and then David T-G home said... % ... % diskfarm:~ # cat /proc/mdstat % Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] ... % md0 : active raid5 sdc1[3] sdd1[4] sdb1[0] % 11720265216 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [U_UU] % % diskfarm:~ # mdadm --examine /dev/sd[bcde]1 | egrep '/dev|Name|Role|State|Checksum|Events|UUID' % /dev/sdb1: ... % State : clean ... % Events : 77944 % Device Role : Active device 0 % Array State : A.AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) % /dev/sdc1: ... % State : clean ... % Events : 77944 % Device Role : Active device 2 % Array State : A.AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) % /dev/sdd1: ... % State : clean ... % Events : 77944 % Device Role : Active device 3 % Array State : A.AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) % /dev/sde1: ... % State : active ... % Events : 60360 % Device Role : Active device 1 % Array State : AAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) % ... % Before I go too crazy ... What do I need to do to bring sde1 back into % the RAID volume, either to catch up the missing 17k events (probably % preferred) or just to rebuild it? [snip] Any advice? Thanks again & HANW :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt