I have a raid device made up of 5 disks. There are four devices in use and one spare, hdl1. When I run mdadm --detail I see six devices, but I don't know what devices 3 is. How do I remove it since it does not exist? [root@munster root]# mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.00 Creation Time : Sat Sep 4 07:01:50 2004 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 468864768 (447.14 GiB 480.16 GB) Device Size : 156288256 (149.05 GiB 160.08 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 6 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sat Sep 4 03:49:15 2004 State : dirty, no-errors Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 5 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 2 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 33 1 0 active sync /dev/hde1 1 34 1 1 active sync /dev/hdg1 2 56 1 2 active sync /dev/hdi1 3 0 0 3 faulty 4 57 1 4 /dev/hdk1 5 57 65 5 /dev/hdl1 UUID : 8cb5dd66:4d5944e4:4c8eacb8:9f4cae58 [root@munster root]# Chris Mason masonc@xxxxxxxxxx Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel. (264) 497-5670 - Cell: (264) 235-5670 - Also (305)-735-3483 Fax: (264) 497-8463 - US Fax (815)301-9759 Yahoo IM: netconcepts_anguilla@xxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list