On 03/03/16 11:37, Another Sillyname wrote: > I'd even be happy to just bring the array up in readonly mode and > transfer the data off, but it will NOT let me reassemble the array > without the 'need data backup file to finish reshape, sorry' error and > will not reassemble. Seeing as no-one else has joined in, search the list archives for that error message, and you should get plenty of hits ... Cheers, Wol -- 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