Hi Guys, I'm looking at a server with a bunch of disks that had a raid 5 with two spares, however, one of the spares failed, the system then started rebuilding on the other and it crashed during the rebuild. I'm now left in the following situation : for a in a b c d e f g h i; do mdadm --examine --scan /dev/sd${a}; done ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=7 UUID=e1e75e8b:f9f387cd:5feed4c5:31c51eb2 ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=7 UUID=e1e75e8b:f9f387cd:5feed4c5:31c51eb2 ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=7 UUID=e1e75e8b:f9f387cd:5feed4c5:31c51eb2 ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=7 UUID=e1e75e8b:f9f387cd:5feed4c5:31c51eb2 ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=7 UUID=e1e75e8b:f9f387cd:5feed4c5:31c51eb2 ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=7 UUID=e1e75e8b:f9f387cd:8d12a2d2:3188faf0 spares=1 ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=7 UUID=e1e75e8b:f9f387cd:8d12a2d2:3188faf0 ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=7 UUID=e1e75e8b:f9f387cd:8d12a2d2:3188faf0 spares=1 ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=7 UUID=e1e75e8b:f9f387cd:8d12a2d2:3188faf0 The system complains because of the different uuids, and refuses to recreate the array. Is it basically stuffed, or is there something I can do to recover the 2TB filesystem that's on there ? Cheers, Eamonn -- 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