On Apr 13, 2013, at 7:20 AM, Sam Bingner <sam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After that you can try to recreate the array with the proper order (sdc1, sdb1, sde1, missing, sda1) and copy data off or add the spare in again depending on if you were able to recover all the data wih GNU ddrescue. What do you mean recreate? what's the specific command? something like: mdadm --create --assume-clean --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/md127 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1 /sdv/sde1 missing /dev/sda1 ?-- 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