How to assemble this array? Note, mdadm.conf has no array line. Originally this was Raid5 with 4disk (sda1, sdb1, sdc1, sdd1) The current /proc/mdstat list everything as spares: Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : inactive sdc1[2](S) sdd1[4](S) sda1[0](S) sdb1[5](S) 23441559552 blocks super 1.2 The last working /proc/mdstat was (yes with failed disk): Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : active raid5 sdb1[5](S) sdd1[4] sdc1[2] sda1[0](F) 17581168128 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/2] [__UU] I ended up rebooting, but a force assemble returns all devices are busy. What gives? mdadm: /dev/sda1 is busy - skipping mdadm: /dev/sdb1 is busy - skipping mdadm: /dev/sdc1 is busy - skipping mdadm: /dev/sdd1 is busy - skipping Also know I that I had set sdb1 faulty and it came back as a spare and rebuilt just prior to this problem. == Drives examined ========= /dev/sda1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 13d20dae:40e86bdf:437f8b51:bf2b4dd8 Name : zippy:0 (local to host zippy) Creation Time : Thu Oct 1 15:37:52 2015 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 11720779776 (5588.90 GiB 6001.04 GB) Array Size : 17581168128 (16766.71 GiB 18003.12 GB) Used Dev Size : 11720778752 (5588.90 GiB 6001.04 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 008c8a3f:9e4295b8:48bdc532:c6c2ab4d Update Time : Thu Jun 9 21:22:12 2016 Checksum : 6c151ac3 - correct Events : 406 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 13d20dae:40e86bdf:437f8b51:bf2b4dd8 Name : zippy:0 (local to host zippy) Creation Time : Thu Oct 1 15:37:52 2015 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 11720779776 (5588.90 GiB 6001.04 GB) Array Size : 17581168128 (16766.71 GiB 18003.12 GB) Used Dev Size : 11720778752 (5588.90 GiB 6001.04 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 4f7deb5f:32333098:c97b360f:578ea16f Update Time : Fri Jun 10 11:44:26 2016 Checksum : 6a7750d8 - correct Events : 412 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : spare Array State : ..AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdc1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 13d20dae:40e86bdf:437f8b51:bf2b4dd8 Name : zippy:0 (local to host zippy) Creation Time : Thu Oct 1 15:37:52 2015 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 11720779776 (5588.90 GiB 6001.04 GB) Array Size : 17581168128 (16766.71 GiB 18003.12 GB) Used Dev Size : 11720778752 (5588.90 GiB 6001.04 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 60905555:5d6adfcc:0200168e:5bec3d80 Update Time : Fri Jun 10 11:44:26 2016 Checksum : 240c7d4f - correct Events : 412 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : ..AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 13d20dae:40e86bdf:437f8b51:bf2b4dd8 Name : zippy:0 (local to host zippy) Creation Time : Thu Oct 1 15:37:52 2015 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 11720779776 (5588.90 GiB 6001.04 GB) Array Size : 17581168128 (16766.71 GiB 18003.12 GB) Used Dev Size : 11720778752 (5588.90 GiB 6001.04 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : d97144c5:35daac52:2ed50f5a:56b2a67d Update Time : Fri Jun 10 11:44:26 2016 Checksum : e32b69c8 - correct Events : 412 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 3 Array State : ..AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) -- 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