Greetings to all As my thread from the 6.2.2014 didn't bring any hint or any reply or way out, I need advise if my way is approved: I reconstructed the part table (testdisk import from a working disk) and now I'm only missing the md superblock on three disks (sdb3/sdf3/sdg3) for my md0 integrity. I'd do the following: a) "mdadm --stop /dev/md0" b) "mdadm --create --assume-clean --verbose --force --run /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=8 /dev/sda3 missing /dev/sdc3 /dev/sdd3 /dev/sde3 /dev/sdf3 /dev/sdg3 /dev/sdh3" or to include the "most datas available" version c) "mdadm --create --verbose --assume-clean /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=8 /dev/sd{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h}3" to gather at least the older layout & data d) "fsck.ext4 /dev/md0" on the array afterwards Does anyone has something better in mind? Cheers Michael -- 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