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...ous'' steps to try to remove the device from the array. Checking things out further, I found that it may be that udev did not completely remove the disk, even though the controller no longer believes that the exported unit exists. (udevadm output is here: http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg41950.html ) So my hypothesis is that if I can somehow force udev to drop the references to the disk completely, perhaps I can remove sdg from the array and start a rebuild with the spare already available. I found these docs for Fedora: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Admi...