Andreas, thank you for your response. Sorry I'm still confused. While the array seems alive, the filesystem seems to be missing? I'm unable to mount the filesystem. As a troubleshooting step I recoverjpeg and it did find a bunch of files. #recoverjpeg -s 1m /dev/md0 # dumpe2fs /dev/md0 dumpe2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015) dumpe2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/md0 Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock. ------------------ # mount /dev/md0 /mnt/raid/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so. ---------------- dmesg: [307811.909930] EXT4-fs (md0): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem --------------- # mdadm --detail /dev/md* /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Sat Aug 26 16:21:20 2017 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 7801143296 (7439.75 GiB 7988.37 GB) Used Dev Size : 3900571648 (3719.88 GiB 3994.19 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Thu Aug 31 22:21:32 2017 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : virtual:0 (local to host virtual) UUID : 964fd303:748b8f0e:58f384ce:3fde97cc Events : 6261 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 3 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 /dev/md127: Version : Raid Level : raid0 Total Devices : 0 State : inactive Number Major Minor RaidDevice ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sincerely, David Mitchell On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Andreas Klauer <Andreas.Klauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 08:52:23PM -0400, David Mitchell wrote: >> # mdadm --examine /dev/md0 >> mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/md0. > > Everyone will assume user error at this point. > /dev/md0 is not supposed to have a mdadm superblock to examine. > It has a filesystem or LUKS or LVM header or whatever it is you do. > > For --examine you have to provide one or more member devices. > > You can do mdadm --detail /dev/md* or mdadm --examine /dev/sd*. > >> Requested from "When Things Go Wrong" >> >> ------------------------------------- >> # mdadm --examine /dev/sd[cde]1 >> /dev/sdc1: >> Magic : a92b4efc >> Version : 1.2 > > Oh look. There it is. Your superblock... > > Other than that I see no problems. Your Load Cycle Counts are high > and for WD there are tools to finetune that behaviour but it's > unclear whether that's actually a real problem. > >> SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors) >> Num Test_Description Status Remaining >> LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error >> # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - > > Consider running smart tests more regularly. > > Regards > Andreas Klauer -- 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