Hi Dragon, On 06/08/2011 10:24 AM, Dragon wrote: > SRaid with 13 Disks crashed > Hello, > > > this seems to be my last chance to get back all of my data from a sw-raid5 with 12-13 disks. > i use debian ( 2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64) and last i wanted to grow the raid from 12 to 13 disk with a size at all of 18tb. after run mke2fs i must see that the tool on ext4 allow a maximum size of 16tb. after that i wanted to shrink the size back to 12 disk and now the raid is gone. Did you actually mean "mke2fs" ? It destroys existing data. I hope you meant "resize2fs". > i tried some assemble and examine things but without success. > > here some information: > cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] > md0 : inactive sdh[0](S) sda[13](S) sdg[12](S) sdf[11](S) sde[10](S) sdd[9](S) sdc[8](S) sdb[6](S) sdm[5](S) sdl[4](S) sdj[3](S) sdi[2](S) > 17581661952 blocks > > unused devices: <none> > > mdadm --detail /dev/md0 > mdadm: md device /dev/md0 does not appear to be active. > > mdadm --assemble --force -v /dev/md0 /dev/sdh /dev/sda /dev/sdg /dev/sdf /dev/sde /dev/sdd /dev/sdc /dev/sdb /dev/sdm /dev/sdl /dev/sdj /dev/sdi --update=super-minor /dev/sdh Was /dev/sdk supposed to be in this list? > mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0 > mdadm: updating superblock of /dev/sdh with minor number 0 > mdadm: /dev/sdh is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 0. > mdadm: updating superblock of /dev/sda with minor number 0 > mdadm: /dev/sda is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 13. This is suspicious. Looks like sda was added as a spare? > mdadm: updating superblock of /dev/sdg with minor number 0 > mdadm: /dev/sdg is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 12. > mdadm: updating superblock of /dev/sdf with minor number 0 > mdadm: /dev/sdf is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 11. > mdadm: updating superblock of /dev/sde with minor number 0 > mdadm: /dev/sde is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 10. > mdadm: updating superblock of /dev/sdd with minor number 0 > mdadm: /dev/sdd is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 9. > mdadm: updating superblock of /dev/sdc with minor number 0 > mdadm: /dev/sdc is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 8. > mdadm: updating superblock of /dev/sdb with minor number 0 > mdadm: /dev/sdb is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 6. > mdadm: updating superblock of /dev/sdm with minor number 0 > mdadm: /dev/sdm is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 5. > mdadm: updating superblock of /dev/sdl with minor number 0 > mdadm: /dev/sdl is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 4. > mdadm: updating superblock of /dev/sdj with minor number 0 > mdadm: /dev/sdj is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 3. > mdadm: updating superblock of /dev/sdi with minor number 0 > mdadm: /dev/sdi is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 2. > mdadm: updating superblock of /dev/sdh with minor number 0 > mdadm: /dev/sdh is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 0. > mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 1 of /dev/md0 > mdadm: added /dev/sdi to /dev/md0 as 2 > mdadm: added /dev/sdj to /dev/md0 as 3 > mdadm: added /dev/sdl to /dev/md0 as 4 > mdadm: added /dev/sdm to /dev/md0 as 5 > mdadm: added /dev/sdb to /dev/md0 as 6 > mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 7 of /dev/md0 > mdadm: added /dev/sdc to /dev/md0 as 8 > mdadm: added /dev/sdd to /dev/md0 as 9 > mdadm: added /dev/sde to /dev/md0 as 10 > mdadm: added /dev/sdf to /dev/md0 as 11 > mdadm: added /dev/sdg to /dev/md0 as 12 > mdadm: added /dev/sda to /dev/md0 as 13 > mdadm: added /dev/sdh to /dev/md0 as 0 > mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 11 drives and 1 spare - not enough to start the array. Indeed. Your problem is likely to be /dev/sda. > mdadm.conf > #old=ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=13 metadata=0.90 UUID=975d6eb2:285eed11:021df236:c2d05073 > ARRAY /dev/md0 UUID=975d6eb2:285eed11:021df236:c2d05073 > > Hope some can help. Thx Please share the output of "mdadm -E /dev/sd[abcdefghijklm]" Phil -- 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