> On 20 Feb 2017, at 20:01, Wols Lists <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > You can try "--assemble --force". It sounds like you might well get away > with it. Would it be possible to start the array by adding sdk1 (setting state as active) and resetting the state of sdm1? The array failed while i was copying stuff to another place ... With —assemble —force i get this: mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Sun Sep 18 22:46:42 2016 Raid Level : raid6 Used Dev Size : -1 Raid Devices : 36 Total Devices : 35 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Feb 15 14:08:28 2017 State : active, FAILED, Not Started Active Devices : 33 Working Devices : 35 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 2 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : media-storage:0 (local to host media-storage) UUID : 5c7c227e:22de5fc1:ca3ebb65:9c283567 Events : 140559 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 3 8 49 3 active sync /dev/sdd1 4 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1 5 8 81 5 active sync /dev/sdf1 6 8 97 6 active sync /dev/sdg1 14 0 0 14 removed 8 8 129 8 active sync /dev/sdi1 9 8 145 9 active sync /dev/sdj1 20 0 0 20 removed 39 8 177 11 active sync /dev/sdl1 12 8 193 12 spare rebuilding /dev/sdm1 13 8 209 13 active sync /dev/sdn1 14 8 225 14 active sync /dev/sdo1 40 8 241 15 active sync /dev/sdp1 16 65 1 16 active sync /dev/sdq1 17 65 17 17 active sync /dev/sdr1 18 65 33 18 active sync /dev/sds1 19 65 49 19 active sync /dev/sdt1 20 65 65 20 active sync /dev/sdu1 21 65 81 21 active sync /dev/sdv1 22 65 97 22 active sync /dev/sdw1 43 65 113 23 active sync /dev/sdx1 36 65 129 24 active sync /dev/sdy1 25 65 145 25 active sync /dev/sdz1 41 65 161 26 active sync /dev/sdaa1 27 65 177 27 active sync /dev/sdab1 28 65 193 28 active sync /dev/sdac1 37 65 209 29 active sync /dev/sdad1 38 65 225 30 active sync /dev/sdae1 42 65 241 31 active sync /dev/sdaf1 32 66 1 32 active sync /dev/sdag1 33 66 17 33 active sync /dev/sdah1 34 66 33 34 active sync /dev/sdai1 35 66 49 35 active sync /dev/sdaj1 44 8 161 - spare /dev/sdk1 Cheers Martin-- 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