Gordon Henderson <gordon@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Try something like: > > mdadm --assemble /dev/mdY /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 \ > --run --force --force did the trick. I could have thought of that one myself. Thanks. As for not hitting the bad blocks again: Is there a way to find out to which file they belong with ext3/xfs on LVM on RAID5? That would be helpfull. Matthias - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html