i believe you should be fine just letting it do its thing on its own. cat /proc/mdstat that should show you how far along it is, but it should be usable in the meantime even. -tcl. On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Brian Denheyer wrote: > > > OK. For the first time since I started with 1.1.54, Linux > spontaneously reset on me. OUCH ! > > I was : transferring on ethernet, playing mp3's and then I started to > print !??? Reset... > > So what does this mean for raid1 ? fsck came up and said the devices > were not clean and did it's thing. Now I see : > > Feb 6 11:39:39 soggy kernel: raid1: raid set md2 not clean; reconstructing mirr > ors > Feb 6 11:39:39 soggy kernel: raid1: raid set md2 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors > > > in syslog. > > How will I know when "reconstruction" is done ? > > Should I wait, umount and run fsck again ? > > Why did my box reset ?! Very scary... > > Once I'm sure the system is stable I'm going to try and do it again :-) > > > Brian >