I want to remove a device from a raid1 device. I can't stop the raid because it's the / filesystem so I used raidsetfaulty to mark the device as faulty and then ran raidhotremove. I ran: [root@srvaecot-1 /root]# raidsetfaulty /dev/md0 /dev/sdd2 and my /proc/mdstat now reads: [root@srvaecot-1 /root]# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid1 sdd2[0](F) sdc2[2] sdb2[1] sda2[0] 618432 blocks [3/3] [UUU] but when I run raidhotremove I get: [root@srvaecot-1 /root]# raidhotremove /dev/md0 /dev/sdd2 /dev/md0: can not hot-remove disk: disk busy! Running kernel 2.2.12 with raid0145-19990824 patch and raidtools-19990824-0.90 Any ideas? Leandro