On 28 March 2012 03:44, Bryan Bush <bbushvt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I have at 8 > drive RAID 6 array that I wanted to grow to 13 drives (adding 5 more). > I issued the mdadm command and checked /proc/mdstat and all looked > well. However at some point in time a disk failed and that hung my > system. Upon reboot the array is inactive and I can't get it to > reassemble. <snip> > > Is there anything I can do to get the array back up? > Thanks > -Bryan > -- > 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 Sorry I can't help you, but that many large HDDs in one array? Can't help but think that's a bit over-the-top risky! Good luck with the recovery. Mathias -- 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