On Tue, September 22, 2009 2:14 am, Sunpyo Hong wrote: > I am stopping and starting the array. I couldn't mount in both instances. > The before is the initial assembly array that I force assembled through > mdadm -Af. This assembled the raid, but couldn't see an ext3 file system. I haven't followed all of this thread, so maybe I missed something, but have you considered the possibility that there is an LVM config on the md array, and that the ext3 filesystem is inside a logical volume? NeilBrown -- 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