This actually happened to me recently where my OS HDD had a complete physical failure. Unfortunately, I do not have a copy of the config files. What additional tasks are needed to re-create the config files - or is this done by -assemble? AMG - 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