OK, managed to use assemble force to get the five remaining drives of the array up in degraded mode. But running ex2fsck (I had an ext3 fs on the RAID) is revealing a number of bad dtimes and invalid blocks. Trying to run ex2fsck with the -p option doesn't work for long, and having to hit enter after each line is testing my patience. So, am I likely to have any good data by the time I finish anyway, or am I wasting my time? Any quicker way to cleanup the filesystem to find out? TIA, Ewan - 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