Good day, sorry for my English schelchtes. I have a little problem with my two raid 5 system. I have been in use Ubuntu 11.xx and then I lost 2 hard drives with a hardware defect, whereupon I have my new hard drives 2TB concerned. Since Ubuntu can not handle drives larger than 2TB, I've also changed Centos 6.2. One of my two Raid 5 5x (250Gb) system, I can write off. Since there are two disc finally broken (hardware failure) The other raid 5 system (3x 80G) I have then taken. Now on a disc that has no partition disappears, the second one was a spare Displayed and the third has no superblock more. [root@sonne ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdg: 82.0 GB, 81964302336 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00032373 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System Disk /dev/sde: 120.1 GB, 120060444672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00037e0a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sde1 1 9970 80076800 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sde2 9970 14597 37167105 5 Extended /dev/sde5 9970 14597 37167104 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdf: 82.0 GB, 81964302336 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00050d72 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdf1 1 9965 80041984 fd Linux raid autodetect [root@sonne ~]# mdadm --examine /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdf1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 5874972e:5326304f:37228c78:dd15d965 Name : sonne:5 Creation Time : Sun Nov 27 03:44:57 2011 Raid Level : -unknown- Raid Devices : 0 Avail Dev Size : 160081920 (76.33 GiB 81.96 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : 8bc40fb6:73fe82b4:c1c001f6:046775d4 Update Time : Mon Jun 18 01:35:12 2012 Checksum : 59fcdac3 - correct Events : 2 Device Role : spare Array State : ('A' == active, '.' == missing) [root@sonne ~]# mdadm --examine /dev/sde1 /dev/sde1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 5874972e:5326304f:37228c78:dd15d965 Name : sonne:5 Creation Time : Sun Nov 27 03:44:57 2011 Raid Level : -unknown- Raid Devices : 0 Avail Dev Size : 160151552 (76.37 GiB 82.00 GB) Used Dev Size : 160081920 (76.33 GiB 81.96 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : eab5a0b6:f7034d85:b143bc4c:4f3b5054 Update Time : Mon Jun 18 01:35:12 2012 Checksum : 1ee38df - correct Events : 2 Device Role : spare Array State : ('A' == active, '.' == missing) Now I've put some try to run the RAID system again. Unfortunately, all to no avail. mdadm -A /dev/md125 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sde1: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/sde1 has no superblock - assembly aborted mdadm -Av /md/md5 --uuid5874972e:5326304f:37228c78:dd15d965 /dev/* mdadm --manage /dev/md125 --re-add /dev/sdg1 mdadm: cannot get array info for /dev/md125 mdadm --assemble /dev/md125 --auto=yes --scan --update=summaries --verbose mdadm: /dev/md125 not identified in config file. mdadm -Cv /dev/md125 -e 1.20 --assume-clean -n3 -l5 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 mdadm: unrecognised metadata identifier: 1.20 mdadm -Cv /dev/md125 -e 1.20 --assume-clean -n3 -l5 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 --force mdadm: unrecognised metadata identifier: 1.20 I hope you still have an idea how I got the raid again and running quickly. Thanks in advance. MFG Herrmanny -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de -- 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