Hello, i need help assembling my raid6 again: root@pc:~# mdadm -A /dev/md0 -v --force /dev/sdd2 /dev/sde2 /dev/sdg2 /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdf2 mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0 mdadm: /dev/sdd2 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 0. mdadm: /dev/sde2 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 1. mdadm: /dev/sdg2 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 2. mdadm: /dev/sdc2 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 3. mdadm: /dev/sdb2 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 4. mdadm: /dev/sdf2 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 5. mdadm: failed to add /dev/sde2 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument mdadm: failed to add /dev/sdg2 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument mdadm: failed to add /dev/sdc2 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument mdadm: failed to add /dev/sdb2 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument mdadm: failed to add /dev/sdf2 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument mdadm: failed to add /dev/sdd2 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md0: Invalid argument dmesg says to this: [25717.423008] md: md0 stopped. [25717.424958] md: sde2 does not have a valid v1.2 superblock, not importing! [25717.424989] md: md_import_device returned -22 [25717.425266] md: sdg2 does not have a valid v1.2 superblock, not importing! [25717.425963] md: md_import_device returned -22 [25717.426847] md: sdc2 does not have a valid v1.2 superblock, not importing! [25717.426880] md: md_import_device returned -22 [25717.427908] md: sdb2 does not have a valid v1.2 superblock, not importing! [25717.427952] md: md_import_device returned -22 [25717.428890] md: sdf2 does not have a valid v1.2 superblock, not importing! [25717.428938] md: md_import_device returned -22 [25717.429668] md: sdd2 does not have a valid v1.2 superblock, not importing! [25717.429716] md: md_import_device returned -22 [25717.430104] md: md0 stopped. but i cant find any problems examining the devices: /dev/sdb2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 078883e8:30c2ebe6:87576034:e85737b8 Name : pc:0 (local to host pc) Creation Time : Fri Sep 5 01:06:21 2014 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 7813699215 (3725.86 GiB 4000.61 GB) Array Size : 15627124736 (14903.19 GiB 16002.18 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813562368 (3725.80 GiB 4000.54 GB) Data Offset : 198656 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=198568 sectors, after=69263 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 02dab3ff:6e36ebf3:2012e2a0:e8b29f3f Update Time : Wed Dec 2 10:13:53 2015 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : b75c2285 - correct Events : 1903827 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 4096K Device Role : Active device 4 Array State : AAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdc2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 078883e8:30c2ebe6:87576034:e85737b8 Name : pc:0 (local to host pc) Creation Time : Fri Sep 5 01:06:21 2014 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 7813699215 (3725.86 GiB 4000.61 GB) Array Size : 15627124736 (14903.19 GiB 16002.18 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813562368 (3725.80 GiB 4000.54 GB) Data Offset : 198656 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=198568 sectors, after=69263 sectors State : clean Device UUID : c9aaa3e3:00589ba5:be8fe774:362d477a Update Time : Wed Dec 2 10:13:53 2015 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 5ba906b9 - correct Events : 1903827 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 4096K Device Role : Active device 3 Array State : AAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdd2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 078883e8:30c2ebe6:87576034:e85737b8 Name : pc:0 (local to host pc) Creation Time : Fri Sep 5 01:06:21 2014 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 7813699215 (3725.86 GiB 4000.61 GB) Array Size : 15627124736 (14903.19 GiB 16002.18 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813562368 (3725.80 GiB 4000.54 GB) Data Offset : 198656 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=198568 sectors, after=69263 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 2b4e613e:1a7f062c:f8ba29a9:e5dcfaf8 Update Time : Wed Dec 2 10:13:53 2015 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : efc7b1df - correct Events : 1903827 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 4096K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sde2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 078883e8:30c2ebe6:87576034:e85737b8 Name : pc:0 (local to host pc) Creation Time : Fri Sep 5 01:06:21 2014 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 7813699215 (3725.86 GiB 4000.61 GB) Array Size : 15627124736 (14903.19 GiB 16002.18 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813562368 (3725.80 GiB 4000.54 GB) Data Offset : 198656 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=198568 sectors, after=69263 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e80ba505:cc0b9904:9288c64a:5c289e62 Update Time : Wed Dec 2 10:13:53 2015 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 9ade0f9a - correct Events : 1903827 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 4096K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdf2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 078883e8:30c2ebe6:87576034:e85737b8 Name : pc:0 (local to host pc) Creation Time : Fri Sep 5 01:06:21 2014 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 7813699215 (3725.86 GiB 4000.61 GB) Array Size : 15627124736 (14903.19 GiB 16002.18 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813562368 (3725.80 GiB 4000.54 GB) Data Offset : 198656 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=198568 sectors, after=69263 sectors State : clean Device UUID : f769eefd:bd202fca:50966083:39a25647 Update Time : Wed Dec 2 10:13:53 2015 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 76100a3c - correct Events : 1903827 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 4096K Device Role : Active device 5 Array State : AAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdg2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 078883e8:30c2ebe6:87576034:e85737b8 Name : pc:0 (local to host pc) Creation Time : Fri Sep 5 01:06:21 2014 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 7813699215 (3725.86 GiB 4000.61 GB) Array Size : 15627124736 (14903.19 GiB 16002.18 GB) Used Dev Size : 7813562368 (3725.80 GiB 4000.54 GB) Data Offset : 198656 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=198568 sectors, after=69263 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 7fad3e2f:85dd6849:127d7d47:58c166dd Update Time : Wed Dec 2 10:13:53 2015 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 80c71068 - correct Events : 1903827 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 4096K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) except for the Checksum and the Device UUID the output is exactly the same for each device... i really hesitate to "recreate" the array with "--assume-clean", because of the Unused-Space/ArraySize, which i wouldnt know how to reassemble in a "mdadm --create ..." line ... do you have any thoughts on that? Thanks very much for your help! Greetings Tobias -- 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