hi had to reboot my raid 5 server. but now it doesnt't want to reassemble correctly i have a raid 5 of 3 disk and a lvm on top of that. i know my data are there but i'm afraid of enter the dead command :-) so here is the information about my raid, if someone could help or explain me something or just give a clue to follow. i remember that, this already happend to me ... exactly the same but i don't remember how i did (promes that this time right everything down) because it's already happend i'm afraid there is a bigger problem in my raid... help me please :-) cat /etc/mdstat : Personalities : md0 : inactive sdd1[2](S) sdc1[1](S) sdb1[3](S) 5860532931 blocks super 1.2 unused devices: <none> ------------------------------------------------ /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : bf3c605b:9699aa55:d45119a2:7ba58d56 Name : debian:0 (local to host debian) Creation Time : Sun Mar 4 22:49:14 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 3907021954 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 7814043136 (3726.03 GiB 4000.79 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907021568 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 5e71f69a:a78b0cd7:bbbb7ecb:cf81f9f6 Update Time : Sat Dec 1 20:46:35 2012 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 2032 sectors Checksum : 920f006c - correct Events : 372 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : A.. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) ---------------------------------------------- /dev/sdc1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : bf3c605b:9699aa55:d45119a2:7ba58d56 Name : debian:0 (local to host debian) Creation Time : Sun Mar 4 22:49:14 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 3907021954 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 7814043136 (3726.03 GiB 4000.79 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907021568 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : 406c4cb5:c188e4a9:7ed8be9f:14a49b16 Update Time : Sat Dec 1 06:58:57 2012 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 2032 sectors Checksum : 73207571 - correct Events : 367 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) ---------------------------------------------- /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : bf3c605b:9699aa55:d45119a2:7ba58d56 Name : debian:0 (local to host debian) Creation Time : Sun Mar 4 22:49:14 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 3907021954 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 7814043136 (3726.03 GiB 4000.79 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907021568 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : f9059dfb:74af1ab7:bc1465b1:e2ff30ba Update Time : Sat Dec 1 06:58:57 2012 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 2032 sectors Checksum : 7be2cdeb - correct Events : 367 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) hope you can help me thanks Mathieu -- 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