On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:30 -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote: > >You can use 'mdadm --fail ...', then 'mdadm --remove ...' to take it > out of the raid > This worked! One more question if I reboot I guess it will find the new > device and begin rebuilding the partition. So how do I change the > partition type, and should I change it to the main drive /dev/sda1 or > the second drive /dev/sdb1 (which has been removed). (fdisk?) Leave /dev/sda1 as it is. It will continue to work with only one active member. Use fdisk to change the partition type on /dev/sdb1 to 83, then make a new filesystem on it and mount it somewhere. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx