On 05/12/2016 02:22 AM, Claudiu Rad wrote: > hello all, Please show the examine for the individual partitions of the raid5: mdadm --examine /dev/sd[a-d]3 { Replace the '3' if appropriate. You don't say what partition numbers your raid5 is on. } You will need to manually assemble (not create !) your array with a backup file outside the raid5, and the --invalid-backup option to abandon the backup file you can't get to. You will likely have some unavoidable corruption at the reshape position due to this. Phil -- 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