Hi, I'm having issues with my raid 5 array after upgrading my os and I have to say I'm desperate :-( whenever I try to mount the array I get the following: [root@lamachine ~]# mount /mnt/raid/ mount: /dev/sda3 is already mounted or /mnt/raid busy [root@lamachine ~]# and the messages log is recording the following: Feb 9 20:25:10 lamachine kernel: [ 3887.287305] EXT4-fs (md2): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem Feb 9 20:25:10 lamachine kernel: [ 3887.304025] EXT4-fs (md2): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem Feb 9 20:25:10 lamachine kernel: [ 3887.320702] EXT4-fs (md2): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem Feb 9 20:25:10 lamachine kernel: [ 3887.353233] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format. Feb 9 20:25:10 lamachine kernel: [ 3887.353571] FAT-fs (md2): invalid media value (0x82) Feb 9 20:25:10 lamachine kernel: [ 3887.368809] FAT-fs (md2): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem Feb 9 20:25:10 lamachine kernel: [ 3887.369140] hfs: can't find a HFS filesystem on dev md2. Feb 9 20:25:10 lamachine kernel: [ 3887.369665] hfs: unable to find HFS+ superblock /etc/fstab is as follows: [root@lamachine ~]# cat /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Fri Feb 8 17:33:14 2013 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info # /dev/mapper/vg_bigblackbox-LogVol_root / ext4 defaults 1 1 UUID=7bee0f50-3e23-4a5b-bfb5-42006d6c8561 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 UUID=48be851b-f021-0b64-e9fb-efdf24c84c5f /mnt/raid ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg_bigblackbox-LogVol_opt /opt ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg_bigblackbox-LogVol_tmp /tmp ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg_bigblackbox-LogVol_var /var ext4 defaults 1 2 UUID=70933ff3-8ed0-4486-abf1-01f00023d1b2 swap swap defaults 0 0 [root@lamachine ~]# After the upgrade I had to assemble the array manually and didn't get any errors but I was still getting the mount problem. I went ahead and recreated it with mdadm --create --assume-clean and still the smae result. here's some more info about md2: [root@lamachine ~]# mdadm --misc --detail /dev/md2 /dev/md2: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Sat Feb 9 17:30:32 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 511996928 (488.28 GiB 524.28 GB) Used Dev Size : 255998464 (244.14 GiB 262.14 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sat Feb 9 20:47:46 2013 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : lamachine:2 (local to host lamachine) UUID : 48be851b:f0210b64:e9fbefdf:24c84c5f Events : 2 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 3 0 active sync /dev/sda3 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 [root@lamachine ~]# it looks like it know about how much space is being used which might indicate that the data is still there? what can I do to recover the data? Any help or guidance is more than welcome. Thanks in advance, Dan -- 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