I'm currently highly suspicious that I executed the wrong command in the wrong window -- which would mean that I blew away the partition table, and fsck'd the new partitions, on /dev/sda. Which theoretically leaves me with /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, no? Except that when I try to access them, it won't allow me to create the array. If I try the whole thing, it either tells me there's no partition table on /dev/md0, or that it can't find the superblock on /dev/md0. Any pointers on where to go from here would be very much appreciated -- as (of course) the irony is that the system I *meant* to be fsck'ing was intended to back up the original system. Thank you kindly, -Ken -- 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