BRAVO!!!!!! Thanks a million Chris! After following your advice on recovering the MBR and the GPT the arrays re-assembled automatically and all data is there. I already changed the type to make it consistent (FD00 on both partitions) and working on setting up the timeouts to 180 at boot time. Other than replacing the green drives with something more suitable (any suggestions are welcome), what else would you suggest to change to make the setup a bit more consistent and upgrade proof (i.e. having different metadata versions doesn't look right to me)? I'd also like to thank Wol and Adam for their help and for keeping the thread alive. Thanks again and again, This is the current status: [root@lamachine ~]# mdadm -D /dev/md* /dev/md126: Version : 0.90 Creation Time : Thu Dec 3 22:12:12 2009 Raid Level : raid10 Array Size : 30719936 (29.30 GiB 31.46 GB) Used Dev Size : 30719936 (29.30 GiB 31.46 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 126 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Sep 14 19:02:55 2016 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 64K UUID : 9af006ca:8845bbd3:bfe78010:bc810f04 Events : 0.264152 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 82 0 active sync set-A /dev/sdf2 1 8 1 1 active sync set-B /dev/sda1 /dev/md127: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Tue Jul 26 19:00:28 2011 Raid Level : raid0 Array Size : 94367232 (90.00 GiB 96.63 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Tue Jul 26 19:00:28 2011 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Chunk Size : 512K Name : reading.homeunix.com:3 UUID : acd5374f:72628c93:6a906c4b:5f675ce5 Events : 0 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 85 0 active sync /dev/sdf5 1 8 21 1 active sync /dev/sdb5 2 8 5 2 active sync /dev/sda5 /dev/md128: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Fri Oct 24 15:24:38 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 4294705152 (4095.75 GiB 4397.78 GB) Used Dev Size : 2147352576 (2047.88 GiB 2198.89 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Wed Sep 14 18:46:47 2016 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : lamachine:128 (local to host lamachine) UUID : f2372cb9:d3816fd6:ce86d826:882ec82e Events : 4154 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 65 0 active sync /dev/sde1 1 8 33 1 active sync /dev/sdc1 3 8 49 2 active sync /dev/sdd1 /dev/md129: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Mon Nov 10 16:28:11 2014 Raid Level : raid0 Array Size : 1572470784 (1499.63 GiB 1610.21 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Mon Nov 10 16:28:11 2014 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Chunk Size : 512K Name : lamachine:129 (local to host lamachine) UUID : 895dae98:d1a496de:4f590b8b:cb8ac12a Events : 0 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 66 0 active sync /dev/sde2 1 8 34 1 active sync /dev/sdc2 2 8 50 2 active sync /dev/sdd2 /dev/md2: Version : 0.90 Creation Time : Mon Feb 11 07:54:36 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 511999872 (488.28 GiB 524.29 GB) Used Dev Size : 255999936 (244.14 GiB 262.14 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Sep 14 18:48:51 2016 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K UUID : 2cff15d1:e411447b:fd5d4721:03e44022 (local to host lamachine) Events : 0.611 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 83 0 active sync /dev/sdf3 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 8 2 2 active sync /dev/sda2 [root@lamachine ~]# [root@lamachine ~]# mdadm -E /dev/sd* /dev/sda: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 61440000 sectors at 63 (type fd) Partition[1] : 512000000 sectors at 61440063 (type fd) Partition[2] : 403328002 sectors at 573440063 (type 05) /dev/sda1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 9af006ca:8845bbd3:bfe78010:bc810f04 Creation Time : Thu Dec 3 22:12:12 2009 Raid Level : raid10 Used Dev Size : 30719936 (29.30 GiB 31.46 GB) Array Size : 30719936 (29.30 GiB 31.46 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 126 Update Time : Wed Sep 14 19:07:26 2016 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : ed993c29 - correct Events : 264152 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 1 8 1 1 active sync /dev/sda1 0 0 8 82 0 active sync /dev/sdf2 1 1 8 1 1 active sync /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 2cff15d1:e411447b:fd5d4721:03e44022 (local to host lamachine) Creation Time : Mon Feb 11 07:54:36 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 255999936 (244.14 GiB 262.14 GB) Array Size : 511999872 (488.28 GiB 524.29 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 2 Update Time : Wed Sep 14 18:48:51 2016 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 73b2a76e - correct Events : 611 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 2 8 2 2 active sync /dev/sda2 0 0 8 83 0 active sync /dev/sdf3 1 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 2 8 2 2 active sync /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 62910589 sectors at 63 (type 83) Partition[1] : 7116795 sectors at 82445692 (type 05) /dev/sda5: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : acd5374f:72628c93:6a906c4b:5f675ce5 Name : reading.homeunix.com:3 Creation Time : Tue Jul 26 19:00:28 2011 Raid Level : raid0 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 62908541 (30.00 GiB 32.21 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : a0efc1b3:94cc6eb8:deea76ca:772b2d2d Update Time : Tue Jul 26 19:00:28 2011 Checksum : 9eba9119 - correct Events : 0 Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sda6. /dev/sdb: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[1] : 512000000 sectors at 409663 (type fd) Partition[2] : 16384000 sectors at 512409663 (type 82) Partition[3] : 447974402 sectors at 528793663 (type 05) /dev/sdb2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 2cff15d1:e411447b:fd5d4721:03e44022 (local to host lamachine) Creation Time : Mon Feb 11 07:54:36 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 255999936 (244.14 GiB 262.14 GB) Array Size : 511999872 (488.28 GiB 524.29 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 2 Update Time : Wed Sep 14 18:48:51 2016 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 73b2a77c - correct Events : 611 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 0 0 8 83 0 active sync /dev/sdf3 1 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 2 8 2 2 active sync /dev/sda2 mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sdb3. /dev/sdb4: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 62912354 sectors at 63 (type 83) Partition[1] : 7116795 sectors at 82447457 (type 05) /dev/sdb5: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : acd5374f:72628c93:6a906c4b:5f675ce5 Name : reading.homeunix.com:3 Creation Time : Tue Jul 26 19:00:28 2011 Raid Level : raid0 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 62910306 (30.00 GiB 32.21 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 152d0202:64efb3e7:f23658c3:82a239a1 Update Time : Tue Jul 26 19:00:28 2011 Checksum : 892dbb61 - correct Events : 0 Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sdb6. /dev/sdc: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 4294967295 sectors at 1 (type ee) /dev/sdc1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : f2372cb9:d3816fd6:ce86d826:882ec82e Name : lamachine:128 (local to host lamachine) Creation Time : Fri Oct 24 15:24:38 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 4294705152 (2047.88 GiB 2198.89 GB) Array Size : 4294705152 (4095.75 GiB 4397.78 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262056 sectors, after=0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 8b1bac5c:6c2cb5a4:bff59099:986b26cd Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Wed Sep 14 18:46:47 2016 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : a4766ee5 - correct Events : 4154 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdc2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 895dae98:d1a496de:4f590b8b:cb8ac12a Name : lamachine:129 (local to host lamachine) Creation Time : Mon Nov 10 16:28:11 2014 Raid Level : raid0 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 1048313856 (499.88 GiB 536.74 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262056 sectors, after=0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 8bc41f51:9af76d31:36349135:2d004cb3 Update Time : Mon Nov 10 16:28:11 2014 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 2af9fe79 - correct Events : 0 Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdd: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 4294967295 sectors at 1 (type ee) /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : f2372cb9:d3816fd6:ce86d826:882ec82e Name : lamachine:128 (local to host lamachine) Creation Time : Fri Oct 24 15:24:38 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 4294705152 (2047.88 GiB 2198.89 GB) Array Size : 4294705152 (4095.75 GiB 4397.78 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262056 sectors, after=0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 1f652d4f:92fccd8e:b439abf2:76b881e1 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Wed Sep 14 18:46:47 2016 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : ee861974 - correct Events : 4154 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdd2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 895dae98:d1a496de:4f590b8b:cb8ac12a Name : lamachine:129 (local to host lamachine) Creation Time : Mon Nov 10 16:28:11 2014 Raid Level : raid0 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 1048313856 (499.88 GiB 536.74 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262056 sectors, after=0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 562dd382:5ccc00aa:449ea7e4:d8b266c2 Update Time : Mon Nov 10 16:28:11 2014 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 937158c1 - correct Events : 0 Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sde: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 4294967295 sectors at 1 (type ee) /dev/sde1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : f2372cb9:d3816fd6:ce86d826:882ec82e Name : lamachine:128 (local to host lamachine) Creation Time : Fri Oct 24 15:24:38 2014 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 4294705152 (2047.88 GiB 2198.89 GB) Array Size : 4294705152 (4095.75 GiB 4397.78 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262056 sectors, after=0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 95334f42:beba0d90:8a0854f4:7dfdbd31 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Wed Sep 14 18:46:47 2016 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 34ccb9f0 - correct Events : 4154 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sde2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 895dae98:d1a496de:4f590b8b:cb8ac12a Name : lamachine:129 (local to host lamachine) Creation Time : Mon Nov 10 16:28:11 2014 Raid Level : raid0 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 1048313856 (499.88 GiB 536.74 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262056 sectors, after=0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : fd6e6f59:89dad658:e361db17:7c15a63f Update Time : Mon Nov 10 16:28:11 2014 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : c956ced4 - correct Events : 0 Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdf: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 407552 sectors at 2048 (type 83) Partition[1] : 61440000 sectors at 409663 (type fd) Partition[2] : 512000000 sectors at 61849663 (type fd) Partition[3] : 402918402 sectors at 573849663 (type 05) mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sdf1. /dev/sdf2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 9af006ca:8845bbd3:bfe78010:bc810f04 Creation Time : Thu Dec 3 22:12:12 2009 Raid Level : raid10 Used Dev Size : 30719936 (29.30 GiB 31.46 GB) Array Size : 30719936 (29.30 GiB 31.46 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 126 Update Time : Wed Sep 14 19:07:26 2016 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : ed993c78 - correct Events : 264152 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 8 82 0 active sync /dev/sdf2 0 0 8 82 0 active sync /dev/sdf2 1 1 8 1 1 active sync /dev/sda1 /dev/sdf3: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 2cff15d1:e411447b:fd5d4721:03e44022 (local to host lamachine) Creation Time : Mon Feb 11 07:54:36 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 255999936 (244.14 GiB 262.14 GB) Array Size : 511999872 (488.28 GiB 524.29 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 2 Update Time : Wed Sep 14 18:48:51 2016 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 73b2a7bb - correct Events : 611 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 8 83 0 active sync /dev/sdf3 0 0 8 83 0 active sync /dev/sdf3 1 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 2 8 2 2 active sync /dev/sda2 /dev/sdf4: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 62918679 sectors at 63 (type 83) Partition[1] : 7116795 sectors at 82453782 (type 05) /dev/sdf5: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : acd5374f:72628c93:6a906c4b:5f675ce5 Name : reading.homeunix.com:3 Creation Time : Tue Jul 26 19:00:28 2011 Raid Level : raid0 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 62916631 (30.00 GiB 32.21 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 5778cd64:0bbba183:ef3270a8:41f83aca Update Time : Tue Jul 26 19:00:28 2011 Checksum : 96003cba - correct Events : 0 Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sdf6. [root@lamachine ~]# cat /etc/mdadm.conf # mdadm.conf written out by anaconda MAILADDR root AUTO +imsm +1.x -all ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid5 num-devices=3 UUID=2cff15d1:e411447b:fd5d4721:03e44022 ARRAY /dev/md126 level=raid10 num-devices=2 UUID=9af006ca:8845bbd3:bfe78010:bc810f04 ARRAY /dev/md127 level=raid0 num-devices=3 UUID=acd5374f:72628c93:6a906c4b:5f675ce5 ARRAY /dev/md128 metadata=1.2 spares=1 name=lamachine:128 UUID=f2372cb9:d3816fd6:ce86d826:882ec82e ARRAY /dev/md129 metadata=1.2 name=lamachine:129 UUID=895dae98:d1a496de:4f590b8b:cb8ac12a [root@lamachine ~]# On 14 September 2016 at 17:13, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Low priority but you could make the type codes consistent for both > partitions. It doesn't matter if they're 8300 or FD00 on GPT disks, > there's nothing I know that actually uses this information. FD00 is > maybe slightly better only in that it'll flag a human to expect that > there's mdadm metadata on this partition rather than a file system. > > > Chris -- 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