Following to the previous mail. I really need to recover the data in the array. I didn't think it was sure to fsck during a stuck reconstruction so I set faulty the disk that is probably faulty mdadm /dev/md3 --fail /dev/hda7 (devfs way really...) mdadm /dev/md3 --remove /dev/hda7 (devfs way really...) now I read srv-ornago:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] read_ahead 1024 sectors (...) md3 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part7[1] 74340672 blocks [2/1] [_U] [>....................] recovery = 0.0% (192/74340672) finish=328392.5min speed=0K/sec unused devices: <none> so it is marked _U but is still under recovery!!! Is it safe to fsck now? (at least as w/ 1 single disk...) TIA sandro *:-) -- Sandro Dentella *:-) e-mail: sandro@xxxxxxxx http://www.tksql.org TkSQL Home page - My GPL work - 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