http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-raid-approaches.html
doesn't reveal too much but from what they say it would imply that they may be able to to what you say as hardware raid does. I would think that newfs'ing the drive may work followed by stoping the raid and restarting it, I know that there are stop/start raid scripts with the OS, if the drive and fs type are similar then the raidD will start rebuilding, I guess that you can only figure it out by trying it out, not to say the least that I was going to get the same IBM 80GB disk and it seems that the Seagate choice was a better one. -- Aly Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator ORS Servers "A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject" -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list