Janek Kozicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I finished copying all data from old disc hdc to my shiny new
> RAID5 array (/dev/hda3 /dev/sda3 missing). Next step is to create a
> partition on hdc and add it to the array. And so I did this:
>
> # mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/hdc3
>
> But then I had a problem - the /dev/hdc3 was a spare, it didn't
> resync automatically:

Strange. That is exactly how I always do it and it always just worked.
mdadm should start syncing on any spare as soon as a disk fails or you
add the spare to a degraded array afaik. No special "start now"
interaction needed.

MfG
        Goswin
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