Hi, My raid 5 is in a strange state. the mdstat tell me is degraded, but when i check the disk that should be in the raid anymore it tell me everything is right ... I'm lost #cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid5 sdc1[3] sdd1[1] 3907021568 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/2] [UU_] unused devices: <none> so my third disk is unused i check with : #mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Sun Mar 4 22:49:14 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 3907021568 (3726.03 GiB 4000.79 GB) Used Dev Size : 1953510784 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sun Mar 30 23:01:35 2014 State : clean, degraded Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Name : debian:0 UUID : bf3c605b:9699aa55:d45119a2:7ba58d56 Events : 255801 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 3 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 2 0 0 2 removed after verify what says the disk i got confuse : #mdadm --examine /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : bf3c605b:9699aa55:d45119a2:7ba58d56 Name : debian:0 Creation Time : Sun Mar 4 22:49:14 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 3907021954 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 7814043136 (3726.03 GiB 4000.79 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907021568 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : f9059dfb:74af1ab7:bc1465b1:e2ff30ba Update Time : Sun Jan 5 04:11:41 2014 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 2032 sectors Checksum : 7df1fefc - correct Events : 436 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) so there i tried to re-add the disk that doesn't works so i tred to stop the raid and assemble it again but it doesn't work either #mdadm --stop /dev/md0 #mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/sd[bcd]1 mdadm: /dev/md0 has been started with 2 drives (out of 3). can you help me guys ? Thanks by advance ps: i've got mdadm 3.3-devel i would update it but don't how to do ... -- 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