Hi all One disk in my raid 1 0 failed the other night. It has been running for +8 years, on my server, a Debian Squeeze. (And yes, I was just about to update them, bought the HD's and everything) I thought that i would be able to backup the data, but i got ext4 error aswell, and when i tried to repair that with fsck i got: " # fsck -n /dev/md0 fsck.ext4: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/md0 Could this be a zero-length partition? " So i am wondering if my mdadm raid is okay. The "State [clean|active]" and "Array State : AA.." is not so easy to interpret, tried to read parts of the threads, but at the same time is worried that more disks should failt... And I'm starting to get really stressed :( All the disk are the same type. And apparently does not support SCT, which I was not aware of before. /dev/sde2 seems to be gone. " cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid10] md0 : active raid10 sda2[0] sde2[3](F) sdc2[2](F) sdb2[1] 5840999424 blocks super 1.2 512K chunks 2 near-copies [4/2] [UU__] " " smartctl -H -i -l scterc /dev/sda smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0 Serial Number: WD-WMAWZ0328886 Firmware Version: 80.00A80 User Capacity: 3 000 592 982 016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Mon Jan 13 23:53:27 2020 CET SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Warning: device does not support SCT Error Recovery Control command " " /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Tue Oct 9 23:30:23 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Array Size : 5840999424 (5570.41 GiB 5981.18 GB) Used Dev Size : 2920499712 (2785.21 GiB 2990.59 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Mon Jan 13 22:47:33 2020 State : clean, FAILED Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 2 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 512K Name : ttserv:0 (local to host ttserv) UUID : cb5bfe7a:3806324c:3c1e7030:e6267102 Events : 2860 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 0 0 2 removed 3 0 0 3 removed 2 8 34 - faulty spare /dev/sdc2 3 8 66 - faulty spare " " /dev/sda2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : cb5bfe7a:3806324c:3c1e7030:e6267102 Name : ttserv:0 (local to host ttserv) Creation Time : Tue Oct 9 23:30:23 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 5840999786 (2785.21 GiB 2990.59 GB) Array Size : 11681998848 (5570.41 GiB 5981.18 GB) Used Dev Size : 5840999424 (2785.21 GiB 2990.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : f474ad64:6bb236d3:9f69f55c:eb9b8c27 Update Time : Mon Jan 13 22:47:33 2020 Checksum : 5c2fce09 - correct Events : 2860 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AA.. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdb2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : cb5bfe7a:3806324c:3c1e7030:e6267102 Name : ttserv:0 (local to host ttserv) Creation Time : Tue Oct 9 23:30:23 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 5840999786 (2785.21 GiB 2990.59 GB) Array Size : 11681998848 (5570.41 GiB 5981.18 GB) Used Dev Size : 5840999424 (2785.21 GiB 2990.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 1a67153d:8d15019a:349926d5:e22dd321 Update Time : Mon Jan 13 22:47:33 2020 Checksum : 6dd9e4de - correct Events : 2860 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AA.. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdc2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : cb5bfe7a:3806324c:3c1e7030:e6267102 Name : ttserv:0 (local to host ttserv) Creation Time : Tue Oct 9 23:30:23 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 5840999786 (2785.21 GiB 2990.59 GB) Array Size : 11681998848 (5570.41 GiB 5981.18 GB) Used Dev Size : 5840999424 (2785.21 GiB 2990.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : 23079ae3:c67969c2:13299e27:8ca3cf7f Update Time : Sun Jan 12 00:11:05 2020 Checksum : ed375eb5 - correct Events : 2719 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) " I really hope someone can help me! /Rickard