On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/19/2013 02:21 AM, Nic Wolfe wrote: > As noted above, you will not be able to use /dev/sdc with the raid card. > You could try leaving it out and taking a backup with the degraded > array. That is what I would recommend first. midgetspy@MidgetNAS:~$ sudo mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/sdd /dev/sdb /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg mdadm: Failed to restore critical section for reshape, sorry. Some googling indicated that my mdadm version (2.6.3) has a known issue with reshapes so I got the 3.2.6 source and built it and tried again: midgetspy@MidgetNAS:~/mdadm-3.2.6$ sudo ./mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/sdd /dev/sdb /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg mdadm: /dev/md1 assembled from 1 drive - not enough to start the array. midgetspy@MidgetNAS:~/mdadm-3.2.6$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md1 : inactive sdg[5](S) sdf[4](S) sde[3](S) sdb[2](S) sdd[0](S) 9767157440 blocks super 0.91 unused devices: <none> mdadm --examine: http://pastebin.com/FRQDXDLB I'm not sure where to go from here. Thanks, Nic -- 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