On Thu, March 4, 2010 5:21 pm, Michael Evans wrote: > Try providing the output of; > for ii in /dev/[sh]d[a-z] ; do parted $ii print ; done Mea culpa; I'd said: I went through all 24 permutations of mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdd2 since I wasn't sure if the drive order was significant. All of them "worked," inasmuch as they created /dev/md0, but in all cases it was partitionless. Which I assumed implied that /dev/sd[a-d]2 was valid on all disks, though, in hindsight, I wasn't explicit. So: /dev/sd[a-d]2 exists on all drives as partition id "fd" (Linux raid autodetect). It's /dev/md0 that shows as a valid, 4.4 TB disk... with no partition. -Ken -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- 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