/dev/sdj1 cant be first, its /dev/sda1. My friend made a python script. take a look. cat rebuild.py #!/usr/bin/env python # /dev/sdj1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdh1 /dev/sdi1 import os; import time; from itertools import permutations; #aLetters = ( 'a', 'c', 'd', 'h', 'i', 'j' ); aLetters = ( 'j', 'c', 'h' ); j = []; for i in permutations(aLetters): if i[0:3] == j[0:3]: continue; j = i; time.sleep(0.1); os.system("vgchange -an vgRAID60 2>/dev/null >/dev/null"); os.system("mdadm -S /dev/md127 2>/dev/null >/dev/null"); os.system("mdadm -S /dev/md126 2>/dev/null >/dev/null"); os.system("mdadm -S /dev/md0 2>/dev/null >/dev/null"); (hStdin, hStdout) = os.popen4("mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=6 --raid-devices=6 --assume-clean --chunk=128 /dev/sda1 /dev/sd%s1 /dev/sd%s1 /dev/sd%s1 missing missing" % (i[0:3])); hStdin.write("y\n"); hStdin.close(); hStdout.close(); time.sleep(0.5); (hStdin, hStdout) = os.popen4("pvck /dev/md0"); sOutput = hStdout.read(); hStdin.close(); hStdout.close(); print("/dev/sdj1 /dev/sd%s1 /dev/sd%s1 /dev/sd%s1 missing missing" % (i[0:3])); fRAID = open("/dev/md0", 'r'); try: fRAID.seek(4608); sLVM = fRAID.read(128); fRAID.close(); except: fRAID.close(); continue; print(sLVM); if sOutput.find("Found label") != -1: os.system("/bin/bash"); # os.system("vgchange -ay vgRAID60 2>/dev/null >/dev/null"); # os.system("vgmknodes"); # iExit = os.system("e2fsck -n /dev/vgRAID60/data0"); # if iExit == 0: # print("/dev/sd%s1 /dev/sd%s1 /dev/sd%s1 /dev/sd%s1 missing missing" % (i)); i can see the data with the combinatin below, but there is a lot of errors, sounds like a rebuild was started(beghining of the disk) then was canceled we made a snapshot, run a e2fsck on it and im still(not now, gotta sleep) add 1 missing or 2. after the e2fsck i mount the snap, look at the data, check corruption, rince and repeat with another combination of missing and not. i rate the ones with less corruption the only e2fsck working is with --->>> a,j,c,h,i,d -- 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