Hi, I had a situation where after rebooting all three drives of a RAID5 array were marked as spares. I rebuild the array using "mdadm -C /dev/md1 -e 1.1 --level 5 -n 3 --chunk 512 --assume-clean /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2" and mdstat showed it was again assembled. The filesystem types on /dev/sdb were all "Linux" instead of "Linux raid autodetect", so I changed them back. /dev/md2 also has a problem, and I have no idea what to do there either. When I tried to fsck it to be sure it was intact, it prompted me that there was a problem with the superblock, and I answered Yes to "Fix?". After there being a number of further errors, I quit fsck, and am here for help. Did I perhaps assemble the array in the wrong disk order? Is there another superblock that may be useful here and how would I find it? I'm really concerned that I've lost the data and really hope someone has some ideas. # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md1 : active raid5 sda2[0] sdc2[2] sdb2[1] 51196928 blocks super 1.1 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] md2 : active raid5 sdc3[0] sdb3[2] sda3[1] 1890300928 blocks super 1.1 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] md0 : active raid1 sdc1[0] sdb1[1] 255988 blocks super 1.0 [3/2] [U_U] unused devices: <none> # mdadm -E /dev/md1 mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/md1. # mdadm --detail /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 1.1 Creation Time : Fri Jul 6 13:41:54 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 51196928 (48.83 GiB 52.43 GB) Used Dev Size : 25598464 (24.41 GiB 26.21 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Fri Jul 6 16:01:18 2012 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : sysresccd:1 (local to host sysresccd) UUID : 4ce6925e:b6cbd20e:7f3efbfc:668295fe Events : 2 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 Thanks for any ideas, Alex -- 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