Still the same problem, lists non partitioned space, unknown, unknown, un partitioned. I wonder if the problem is because i'm not re-creating it with bitmap file, which is listed as starting 8 sectors from superblock, so with it not being there the partition table is being read from this space and not further along the space. Infact, looking at the re-created superblock there is a change... /dev/sde6: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 1c413162:25c7b4af:7b305603:1ce49fed Name : BorgCUBE:5 (local to host BorgCUBE) Creation Time : Thu Dec 5 00:28:11 2013 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 1833309583 (874.19 GiB 938.65 GB) Array Size : 3666617344 (3496.76 GiB 3754.62 GB) Used Dev Size : 1833308672 (874.19 GiB 938.65 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : de841586:f82b22ed:1a234ae7:57fbb36a Update Time : Thu Dec 5 00:28:11 2013 Checksum : 9dcbeec1 - correct Events : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K The "data offset" is 262144 where as the sdc (original) is 2048 /dev/sdc6: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 9ff95b8b:ba34ad95:aa7cb806:169246f2 Name : PartedMagic:6 Creation Time : Fri Nov 25 16:30:19 2011 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 1833569679 (874.31 GiB 938.79 GB) Array Size : 3667138560 (3497.26 GiB 3755.15 GB) Used Dev Size : 1833569280 (874.31 GiB 938.79 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : 4ce632fb:d506da60:120cac8e:4433efc4 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Wed Dec 4 23:04:40 2013 Checksum : fe4e7b1f - correct Events : 260243 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K -- 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