You are right, the array starts at pos 0 and so pos 1 and 7 are the right pos. the 2. try was perfect. fsck shows this: fsck -n /dev/md0 fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) /dev/md0 wurde nicht ordnungsgemÃÃ ausgehÃngt, PrÃfung erzwungen. Durchgang 1: PrÃfe Inodes, Blocks, und GrÃÃen Durchgang 2: PrÃfe Verzeichnis Struktur Durchgang 3: PrÃfe Verzeichnis VerknÃpfungen Durchgang 4: ÃberprÃfe die ReferenzzÃhler Durchgang 5: ÃberprÃfe Gruppe Zusammenfassung dd/dev/md0: 266872/1007288320 Dateien (15.4% nicht zusammenhÃngend), 3769576927/4029130864 BlÃcke and: mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 0.90 Creation Time : Fri Jun 10 14:19:24 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 17581661952 (16767.18 GiB 18003.62 GB) Used Dev Size : 1465138496 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Raid Devices : 13 Total Devices : 13 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Fri Jun 10 14:19:24 2011 State : clean Active Devices : 13 Working Devices : 13 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K UUID : 8c4d8438:42aa49f9:a6d866f6:b6ea6b93 (local to host nassrv01) Events : 0.1 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 160 0 active sync /dev/sdk 1 8 208 1 active sync /dev/sdn 2 8 176 2 active sync /dev/sdl 3 8 192 3 active sync /dev/sdm 4 8 0 4 active sync /dev/sda 5 8 16 5 active sync /dev/sdb 6 8 64 6 active sync /dev/sde 7 8 48 7 active sync /dev/sdd 8 8 80 8 active sync /dev/sdf 9 8 96 9 active sync /dev/sdg 10 8 112 10 active sync /dev/sdh 11 8 128 11 active sync /dev/sdi 12 8 144 12 active sync /dev/sdj normaly i use fsck.ext4 e.a. fsck.ext4dev. problem? what means 15,4% not related? the quote of lost data? after that i shrink like this:? mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sdj mdadm /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sdj mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf right way? i assume that the disk that i take off the raid is not the same like i added at last? so i have to read out the serial to find it under the harddrives? many thx so far -- NEU: FreePhone - kostenlos mobil telefonieren! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone -- 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