On Sunday 01 April 2007 11:37 am, Les Mikesell wrote: > The question is whether the kernel will notice the new drive when you > add it. It might be possible to swap in an exact match and get away > with the setup detected at boot time but that doesn't sound very > healthy. Can you hotswap a new SATA drive that wasn't present at > boot time and have the kernel notice the new drive device and its > partitions. Thinking more about this ... I most likely wouldn't have a drive "ready" as all our servers don't have the same configuration. > If the partitions are recognized, mdadm will be able to > add them. Could I create partitions on a new drive (fdisk) and then do either a mount or remount? And then start rebuilding the RAID? Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our blists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-7540, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"