I have an ubuntu RAID 10 server using mdadm. It has six drives and a hot spare. The eSATA cables to the box holding the harddrives got disconnected from the server. When I plugged them back, it immediately saw only three of the drives and my hotspare and started rebuilding the array. Not wanting to screw it up, I let it finish, and then I rebooted. On start up, the array was inactive. When I tried to assemble it, it told me that there was only one disk(!?) so I tried to assemble it with the --force command. It then assembled, but the logical volume that I use to mount the RAID partition was gone. I have backups, but I'd like to save the data if at all possible. What's my best course of action from here? Here's the /proc/mdstat after rebooting: md127 : active (auto-read-only) raid10 sdg1[5] sdd1[1] sdh1[6] sde1[7] sdf1[4] sdc1[2] 2929890816 blocks super 1.2 256K chunks 2 far-copies [6/6] [UUUUUU] Blkid output: /dev/sda1: LABEL="KINGSTON" UUID="C3D4-FB34" TYPE="vfat" /dev/sdb1: UUID="dedc8d6c-8155-f88d-b035-c8cf66d4e561" UUID_SUB="f858b034-29ab-4d59-02d3-775b9b2139cd" LABEL="Pangolin:0" TYPE="linux_raid_member" /dev/sdc1: UUID="dedc8d6c-8155-f88d-b035-c8cf66d4e561" UUID_SUB="90675a7f-bf95-1514-4e54-e38ef61d5943" LABEL="Pangolin:0" TYPE="linux_raid_member" /dev/sdd1: UUID="dedc8d6c-8155-f88d-b035-c8cf66d4e561" UUID_SUB="eaa50f1c-e1cd-d1a2-b10b-da77f2c0d5d7" LABEL="Pangolin:0" TYPE="linux_raid_member" /dev/sde1: UUID="dedc8d6c-8155-f88d-b035-c8cf66d4e561" UUID_SUB="0b8210f9-cd73-a70d-bba7-01231bf9c578" LABEL="Pangolin:0" TYPE="linux_raid_member" /dev/sdf1: UUID="dedc8d6c-8155-f88d-b035-c8cf66d4e561" UUID_SUB="fe58a109-7ec1-37d6-ee10-76197ffb4c67" LABEL="Pangolin:0" TYPE="linux_raid_member" /dev/sdg1: UUID="dedc8d6c-8155-f88d-b035-c8cf66d4e561" UUID_SUB="726e7104-835c-adcc-32c4-952699b3b030" LABEL="Pangolin:0" TYPE="linux_raid_member" /dev/sdh1: UUID="dedc8d6c-8155-f88d-b035-c8cf66d4e561" UUID_SUB="91095954-1368-ba5e-592a-b3d245904cb8" LABEL="Pangolin:0" TYPE="linux_raid_member" /dev/sdi1: UUID="d24a5068-14fb-4cec-831a-4b6d3bdba44d" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdi5: UUID="ab5617d1-58e1-4013-9690-64679982b2cf" TYPE="swap" /dev/md127: UUID="S2atdF-aFUn-hmKm-yzsr-iqYW-DX3W-ioWjnl" TYPE="LVM2_member" Carter J. Castor -- 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