gargamel:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath] md6 : active raid5 sdn1[3](F) sdt1[0](F) sds1[1](F) sdq1[2](F) 23441547264 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/0] [_____] gargamel:~# mdadm --stop /dev/md6 mdadm: /dev/md6 does not appear to be an md device gargamel:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md6 /dev/md6: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Wed Jul 8 10:09:21 2020 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 23441547264 (22355.60 GiB 24004.14 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860386816 (5588.90 GiB 6001.04 GB) Raid Devices : 5 Total Devices : 4 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Fri Mar 17 09:17:28 2023 State : clean, FAILED Active Devices : 0 Failed Devices : 4 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Consistency Policy : ppl Number Major Minor RaidDevice State - 0 0 0 removed - 0 0 1 removed - 0 0 2 removed - 0 0 3 removed - 0 0 4 removed How do I clear this without a reboot? gargamel:~# uname -r 5.19.7 -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 7F55D5F27AAF9D08