On 28/10/18 01:47, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On zaterdag 27 oktober 2018 18:26:28 CET Diederik de Haas wrote: >> Would >> repartitioning and/or zero-ing out the drives have the same effect? Or is >> there and/or should I use another method? >> My reasoning is that if mdadm doesn't see the bitmap (?) and/or no longer >> sees the drives as RAID partitions, it also won't bother with it. > > mdadm --stop /dev/md0 > fdisk /dev/sdb (delete partition) > fdisk /dev/sdc (delete partition) > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sd[f-g]1 > mdadm --readwrite /dev/md0 > > Fixed it for me :) > Brilliant. I would still upgrade mdadm, though. It bit me when I created a mirror and instead of a 2-disk mirror I ended up with two identical 1-disk mirrors. Not quite the same as your problem, but close enough to be suspicious, Cheers, Wol