Here's the output of -E for sdf1 and one other, in case it's needed. As I understand it the UUID is what has to do with the superblock, but UUID's match between them. mdadm -E /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdf1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 714a612d:9bd35197:36c91ae3:c168144d Creation Time : Fri Jun 15 15:52:05 2012 Raid Level : raid6 Used Dev Size : 1953503872 (1863.01 GiB 2000.39 GB) Array Size : 9767519360 (9315.03 GiB 10001.94 GB) Raid Devices : 7 Total Devices : 7 Preferred Minor : 127 Update Time : Sat Sep 2 01:00:37 2017 State : active Active Devices : 6 Working Devices : 6 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : cd217ebc - correct Events : 11559404 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 5 8 65 5 active sync /dev/sde1 0 0 8 81 0 active sync /dev/sdf1 1 1 8 33 1 active sync /dev/sdc1 2 2 8 17 2 active sync 3 3 65 129 3 active sync /dev/sdy1 4 4 8 49 4 active sync /dev/sdd1 5 5 8 65 5 active sync /dev/sde1 6 6 0 0 6 faulty removed ***************************** mdadm -E /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.91.00 UUID : 714a612d:9bd35197:36c91ae3:c168144d Creation Time : Fri Jun 15 15:52:05 2012 Raid Level : raid6 Used Dev Size : 1953503872 (1863.01 GiB 2000.39 GB) Array Size : 11721023232 (11178.04 GiB 12002.33 GB) Raid Devices : 8 Total Devices : 6 Preferred Minor : 127 Reshape pos'n : 3799296 (3.62 GiB 3.89 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (7->8) Update Time : Wed Oct 4 12:49:57 2017 State : clean Active Devices : 6 Working Devices : 6 Failed Devices : 2 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : ce71a9cb - correct Events : 11559681 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 3 8 1 3 active sync /dev/sda1 0 0 8 97 0 active sync /dev/sdg1 1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 2 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 3 3 8 1 3 active sync /dev/sda1 4 4 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1 5 5 0 0 5 faulty removed 6 6 8 16 6 active /dev/sdb 7 7 0 0 7 faulty removed -- 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