nas ~ # mdadm --verbose --manage --add /dev/md2 /dev/sde3 mdadm: added /dev/sde3 nas ~ # mdadm --verbose --manage --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdf3 mdadm: added /dev/sdf3 nas ~ # mdadm -D /dev/md2 /dev/md2: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Tue Aug 28 04:45:52 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 78646272 (75.00 GiB 80.53 GB) Used Dev Size : 26215424 (25.00 GiB 26.84 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 6 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Tue Dec 10 19:44:51 2013 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 6 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 2 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : localhost.localdomain:2 UUID : a9d908f3:f8632fcf:59a69085:83d5f6aa Events : 1043 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 3 0 active sync /dev/sda3 1 8 50 1 active sync /dev/sdd2 2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 4 8 18 3 active sync /dev/sdb2 5 8 67 - spare /dev/sde3 6 8 83 - spare /dev/sdf3