Il giorno lun, 29/11/2010 alle 20.12 +0100, Jan Ceuleers ha scritto: > I've had similar problems, which I resolved by changing the partition > type from fd (Linux RAID autodetect) to 83 (Linux), ensuring that the > initrd is able to assemble the RAID. > Worth a shot. > HTH, Jan Thanks for the reply, Jan, but the problem is not at raid level, or better, the raid just finished to reshape and now has 5/5 of his components and is active: root@mizar:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] md6 : active raid5 sdf1[2] sdb1[0] sda1[1] sdc[4] sde1[3] 3438905344 blocks level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU] The problem is that I added a device partition (sdc1) but after the crash the array has sdc (the device) as one of his components. The partition table on the disk was wiped-out. The result is that the filesystem on it (dev/md6) is unreadable and fsck.ext3 can't fix it. Bye -- Michele Bonera linux user group brescia -- 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