Hi, i wanted to reassemble my Raid5. Last week i added a new device to my raid5 with 6 devices. After the reshape, mdadm said, device 7 is failed. I tested the device and there are a lot of bad blocks. So i removed the device from the raid, resized the filesystem and during the reshape, device #3 was removed from the raid and the reshape was canceled. Yesterday i removed the 7th device from the computer and now, the raid doesnt start. mdadm --assemble --verbose /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1/dev/sdf1 mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0 mdadm: /dev/sda1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 1. mdadm: /dev/sdb1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 5. mdadm: /dev/sdc1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot -1. mdadm: /dev/sdd1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 0. mdadm: /dev/sde1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 4. mdadm: /dev/sdf1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 2. mdadm: device 7 in /dev/md0 has wrong state in superblock, but /dev/sdc1 seems ok mdadm:/dev/md0 has an active reshape - checking if critical section needs to be restored mdadm: added /dev/sda1 to /dev/md0 as 1 mdadm: added /dev/sdf1 to /dev/md0 as 2 mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 3 of /dev/md0 mdadm: added /dev/sde1 to /dev/md0 as 4 mdadm: added /dev/sdb1 to /dev/md0 as 5 mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 6 of /dev/md0 mdadm: added /dev/sdc1 to /dev/md0 as -1 mdadm: added /dev/sdd1 to /dev/md0 as 0 mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 5 drives and 1 spare - not enough to start the array. mdadm --run /dev/md0 mdadm: failed to run array /dev/md0: Input/output error mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Fri Feb 22 22:08:12 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 976630272 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Raid Devices : 6 Total Devices : 6 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Mar 21 15:50:39 2013 State : active, degraded, Not Started Active Devices : 5 Working Devices : 6 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Delta Devices : -1, (7->6) Name : server:0 (local to host server) UUID : 1db312ca:48cd4f30:e8607949:0c721b94 Events : 38267 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 49 0 active sync /dev/sdd1 1 8 1 1 active sync /dev/sda1 3 8 81 2 active sync /dev/sdf1 3 0 0 3 removed 5 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1 6 8 17 5 active sync /dev/sdb1 7 8 33 - spare /dev/sdc1 What can i do to rescue my data? Thx -- 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