Hi all I'd be grateful of another pair of eyes just to check and verify what I'm thinking. I've had an array fail and I've checked the components with the mdadm --examine command. Five out of the six event counts are correct and I'm hoping I can get it to assemble with the force option: - "mdadm --assemble --force /dev/mdX <list of devices>" mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 Output from --examine is as follows: - [root@inscribe4 dev]# mdadm --examine /dev/sde1 /dev/sde1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : ace00fb5:8771d55a:cf36728b:ddc3ce89 Name : intermediate0 Creation Time : Tue Oct 15 21:03:50 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 3906761858 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Array Size : 9766901760 (9314.44 GiB 10001.31 GB) Used Dev Size : 3906760704 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262064 sectors, after=1154 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 8d0b6c8e:0c526265:6ec0a71b:52a636ba Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Aug 8 14:16:53 2017 Checksum : 44b7b461 - correct Events : 119894 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : spare Array State : AAA.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) [root@inscribe4 dev]# mdadm --examine /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdg1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : ace00fb5:8771d55a:cf36728b:ddc3ce89 Name : intermediate0 Creation Time : Tue Oct 15 21:03:50 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 3906761858 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Array Size : 9766901760 (9314.44 GiB 10001.31 GB) Used Dev Size : 3906760704 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262064 sectors, after=1154 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e238e74b:d40efc43:d34d876d:ca0700b0 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Aug 8 14:16:53 2017 Checksum : 28758d54 - correct Events : 119894 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAA.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) [root@inscribe4 dev]# mdadm --examine /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : ace00fb5:8771d55a:cf36728b:ddc3ce89 Name : intermediate0 Creation Time : Tue Oct 15 21:03:50 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 3906761858 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Array Size : 9766901760 (9314.44 GiB 10001.31 GB) Used Dev Size : 3906760704 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262064 sectors, after=1154 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 1732f121:f6f0df09:fafd2411:7c78ce00 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Aug 8 14:16:53 2017 Checksum : b8cf8981 - correct Events : 119894 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAA.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) [root@inscribe4 dev]# mdadm --examine /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdf1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : ace00fb5:8771d55a:cf36728b:ddc3ce89 Name : intermediate0 Creation Time : Tue Oct 15 21:03:50 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 3906761858 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Array Size : 9766901760 (9314.44 GiB 10001.31 GB) Used Dev Size : 3906760704 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262064 sectors, after=1154 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 3d414ad2:4310c1f9:98f50214:3e9b1e33 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Aug 8 14:16:53 2017 Checksum : 8e37d25d - correct Events : 119894 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) [root@inscribe4 dev]# mdadm --examine /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : ace00fb5:8771d55a:cf36728b:ddc3ce89 Name : intermediate0 Creation Time : Tue Oct 15 21:03:50 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 3906761858 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Array Size : 9766901760 (9314.44 GiB 10001.31 GB) Used Dev Size : 3906760704 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262064 sectors, after=1154 sectors State : clean Device UUID : a84263cd:75ce20b9:a3a72a1c:b18b2457 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Jul 31 22:50:37 2017 Checksum : 74d320d6 - correct Events : 119879 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 5 Array State : AAA.AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) [root@inscribe4 dev]# mdadm --examine /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : ace00fb5:8771d55a:cf36728b:ddc3ce89 Name : intermediate0 Creation Time : Tue Oct 15 21:03:50 2013 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 3906761858 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Array Size : 9766901760 (9314.44 GiB 10001.31 GB) Used Dev Size : 3906760704 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262064 sectors, after=1154 sectors State : clean Device UUID : be5ec20e:249645e5:22aeca25:a60c7599 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Aug 8 14:16:53 2017 Checksum : 2e529fae - correct Events : 119894 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 4 Array State : AAA.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) Thanks Bryan -- 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