Neil Brown wrote: >>Q1) What is the correct command to bring these three up as >> degraded? > > > mdadm --assemble --force /dev/mdX /dev/sd[abc]1 > > However this won't work with the superblocks you have. So > > mdadm --create /dev/mdX -l5 -c256 -n4 missing /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc I do not see 'missing' the the mdadm manpage, but maybe Debian is too far behind? # mdadm --version mdadm - v1.9.0 - 04 February 2005 Should I use 2.1 (is it safe to upgrade to it)? I built it anyway and I do not see 'missing' listed in mdadm --create --help Reading the new mdadm.man I can see what .missing' does, good. I got it up (fsck now running), thanks a lot. -- Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://samba.org/eyal/> attach .zip as .dat - 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