Hello, I recently attempted to add a new drive to my 8-drive RAID 6 array, growing it to 9 drives. I've done similar before with the same array, having previously grown it from 6 drives to 7 and then from 7 to 8 with no issues. Drives are WD Reds, most older than 2019, some (including the newest) newer, but all confirmed CMR and not SMR. Process used to expand the array: mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 mdadm --grow --raid-devices=9 --backup-file=/root/grow_md0.bak /dev/md0 The reshape started off fine, the process was underway, and the volume was still usable as expected. However, 15-30 minutes into the reshape, I lost access to the contents of the drive. Checking /proc/mdstat, the reshape was stopped at 0.6% with the counter not incrementing at all. Any process accessing the array would just hang until killed. I waited a half hour and there was still no further change to the counter. At this point, I restarted the server and found that when it came back up it would begin reshaping again, but only very briefly, under 30 seconds, but the counter would be increasing during that time. I searched furiously for ideas and tried stopping and reassembling the array, assembling with an invalid-backup flag, echoing "frozen" then "reshape" to the sync_action file, and echoing "max" to the sync_max file. Nothing ever seemed to make a difference. Here is where I slightly panicked, worried that I'd borked my array, and powered off the server again and disconnected the new drive that was just added, assuming that since it was the change, it may be the problem despite having burn-in tested it, and figuring that I'll rush order a new drive, so long as the reshape continues and I can just rebuild onto a new drive once the reshape finishes. However, this made no difference and the array continued to not rebuild. Much searching later, I'd found nothing substantially different then I'd already tried and one of the common threads in other people's issues was bad drives, so I ran a self-test against each of the existing drives and found one drive that failed the read test. Thinking I had the culprit now, I dropped that drive out of the array and assembled the array again, but the same behavior persists. The array reshapes very briefly, then completely stops. Down to 0 drives of redundancy (in the reshaped section at least), not finding any new ideas on any of the forums, mailing list, wiki, etc, and very frustrated, I took a break, bought all new drives to build a new array in another server and restored from a backup. However, there is still some data not captured by the most recent backup that I would like to recover, and I'd also like to solve the problem purely to understand what happened and how to recover in the future. Is there anything else I should try to recover this array, or is this a lost cause? Details requested by the wiki to follow and I'm happy to collect any further data that would assist. /dev/sdb is the new drive that was added, then disconnected. /dev/sdh is the drive that failed a self-test and was removed from the array. Thank you in advance for any help provided! $ uname -a Linux Blyth 5.15.0-76-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 15 19:16:32 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ mdadm --version mdadm - v4.2 - 2021-12-30 $ sudo smartctl -H -i -l scterc /dev/sda smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-76-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WCC4N7AT7R7X LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 268545f93 Firmware Version: 82.00A82 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sun Sep 3 13:27:55 2023 PDT 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 SCT Error Recovery Control: Read: 70 (7.0 seconds) Write: 70 (7.0 seconds) $ sudo smartctl -H -i -l scterc /dev/sda smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-76-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WCC4N7AT7R7X LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 268545f93 Firmware Version: 82.00A82 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sun Sep 3 13:28:16 2023 PDT 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 SCT Error Recovery Control: Read: 70 (7.0 seconds) Write: 70 (7.0 seconds) $ sudo smartctl -H -i -l scterc /dev/sdb smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-76-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WXG1A8UGLS42 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2b75ef53b Firmware Version: 80.00A80 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sun Sep 3 13:28:19 2023 PDT 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 SCT Error Recovery Control: Read: 70 (7.0 seconds) Write: 70 (7.0 seconds) $ sudo smartctl -H -i -l scterc /dev/sdc smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-76-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WCC4N4HYL32Y LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2630752f8 Firmware Version: 82.00A82 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sun Sep 3 13:28:20 2023 PDT 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 SCT Error Recovery Control: Read: 70 (7.0 seconds) Write: 70 (7.0 seconds) $ sudo smartctl -H -i -l scterc /dev/sdd smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-76-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68N32N0 Serial Number: WD-WCC7K1FF6DYK LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2ba952a30 Firmware Version: 82.00A82 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5 SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sun Sep 3 13:28:21 2023 PDT 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 SCT Error Recovery Control: Read: 70 (7.0 seconds) Write: 70 (7.0 seconds) $ sudo smartctl -H -i -l scterc /dev/sde smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-76-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WCC4N5ZHTRJF LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2b88b83bb Firmware Version: 82.00A82 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sun Sep 3 13:28:22 2023 PDT 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 SCT Error Recovery Control: Read: 70 (7.0 seconds) Write: 70 (7.0 seconds) $ sudo smartctl -H -i -l scterc /dev/sdf smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-76-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 Serial Number: WD-WMC1T3804790 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 6036b6826 Firmware Version: 80.00A80 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sun Sep 3 13:28:23 2023 PDT 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 SCT Error Recovery Control: Read: 70 (7.0 seconds) Write: 70 (7.0 seconds) $ sudo smartctl -H -i -l scterc /dev/sdg smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-76-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WMC4N0H692Z9 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 65af39740 Firmware Version: 82.00A82 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sun Sep 3 13:28:24 2023 PDT 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 SCT Error Recovery Control: Read: 70 (7.0 seconds) Write: 70 (7.0 seconds) $ sudo smartctl -H -i -l scterc /dev/sdh smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-76-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 Serial Number: WD-WMC4N0K5S750 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 6b048d9ca Firmware Version: 82.00A82 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sun Sep 3 13:28:24 2023 PDT 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 SCT Error Recovery Control: Read: 70 (7.0 seconds) Write: 70 (7.0 seconds) $ sudo smartctl -H -i -l scterc /dev/sdi smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-76-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 Serial Number: WD-WMC1T1502475 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 058d2e5cb Firmware Version: 80.00A80 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sun Sep 3 13:28:27 2023 PDT 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 SCT Error Recovery Control: Read: 70 (7.0 seconds) Write: 70 (7.0 seconds) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sda /dev/sda: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 4294967295 sectors at 1 (type ee) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0xd Array UUID : 440dc11e:079308b1:131eda79:9a74c670 Name : Blyth:0 (local to host Blyth) Creation Time : Tue Aug 4 23:47:57 2015 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 9 Avail Dev Size : 5856376832 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Array Size : 20497268736 KiB (19.09 TiB 20.99 TB) Used Dev Size : 5856362496 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Data Offset : 247808 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=247728 sectors, after=14336 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 8ca60ad5:60d19333:11b24820:91453532 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Reshape pos'n : 124311040 (118.55 GiB 127.29 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (8->9) Update Time : Tue Jul 11 23:12:08 2023 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 24 sectors - bad blocks present. Checksum : b6d8f4d1 - correct Events : 181105 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 7 Array State : AA.AAAAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 4294967295 sectors at 1 (type ee) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x5 Array UUID : 440dc11e:079308b1:131eda79:9a74c670 Name : Blyth:0 (local to host Blyth) Creation Time : Tue Aug 4 23:47:57 2015 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 9 Avail Dev Size : 5856376832 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Array Size : 20497268736 KiB (19.09 TiB 20.99 TB) Used Dev Size : 5856362496 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Data Offset : 247808 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=247728 sectors, after=14336 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 386d3001:16447e43:4d2a5459:85618d11 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Reshape pos'n : 124207104 (118.45 GiB 127.19 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (8->9) Update Time : Tue Jul 11 00:02:59 2023 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 24 sectors Checksum : b544a39 - correct Events : 181077 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 8 Array State : AAAAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 4294967295 sectors at 1 (type ee) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0xd Array UUID : 440dc11e:079308b1:131eda79:9a74c670 Name : Blyth:0 (local to host Blyth) Creation Time : Tue Aug 4 23:47:57 2015 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 9 Avail Dev Size : 5856376832 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Array Size : 20497268736 KiB (19.09 TiB 20.99 TB) Used Dev Size : 5856362496 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Data Offset : 247808 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=247720 sectors, after=14336 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 1798ec4f:72c56905:4e74ea61:2468db75 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Reshape pos'n : 124311040 (118.55 GiB 127.29 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (8->9) Update Time : Tue Jul 11 23:12:08 2023 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors - bad blocks present. Checksum : 88d8b8fc - correct Events : 181105 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 4 Array State : AA.AAAAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdd /dev/sdd: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 4294967295 sectors at 1 (type ee) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x5 Array UUID : 440dc11e:079308b1:131eda79:9a74c670 Name : Blyth:0 (local to host Blyth) Creation Time : Tue Aug 4 23:47:57 2015 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 9 Avail Dev Size : 5856376832 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Array Size : 20497268736 KiB (19.09 TiB 20.99 TB) Used Dev Size : 5856362496 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Data Offset : 247808 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=247728 sectors, after=14336 sectors State : clean Device UUID : a198095b:f54d26a9:deb3be8f:d6de9be1 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Reshape pos'n : 124311040 (118.55 GiB 127.29 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (8->9) Update Time : Tue Jul 11 23:12:08 2023 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 24 sectors Checksum : d1471d9d - correct Events : 181105 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 6 Array State : AA.AAAAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sde /dev/sde: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 4294967295 sectors at 1 (type ee) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sde1 /dev/sde1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x5 Array UUID : 440dc11e:079308b1:131eda79:9a74c670 Name : Blyth:0 (local to host Blyth) Creation Time : Tue Aug 4 23:47:57 2015 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 9 Avail Dev Size : 5856376832 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Array Size : 20497268736 KiB (19.09 TiB 20.99 TB) Used Dev Size : 5856362496 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Data Offset : 247808 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=247720 sectors, after=14336 sectors State : clean Device UUID : acf7ba2e:35d2fa91:6b12b0ce:33a73af5 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Reshape pos'n : 124311040 (118.55 GiB 127.29 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (8->9) Update Time : Tue Jul 11 23:12:08 2023 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : e05d0278 - correct Events : 181105 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 5 Array State : AA.AAAAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdf /dev/sdf: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 4294967295 sectors at 1 (type ee) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdf1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x5 Array UUID : 440dc11e:079308b1:131eda79:9a74c670 Name : Blyth:0 (local to host Blyth) Creation Time : Tue Aug 4 23:47:57 2015 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 9 Avail Dev Size : 5856373760 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Array Size : 20497268736 KiB (19.09 TiB 20.99 TB) Used Dev Size : 5856362496 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Data Offset : 247808 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=247720 sectors, after=14336 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 31e7b86d:c274ff45:aa6dab50:2ff058c6 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Reshape pos'n : 124311040 (118.55 GiB 127.29 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (8->9) Update Time : Tue Jul 11 23:12:08 2023 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 26792cc0 - correct Events : 181105 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AA.AAAAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdg /dev/sdg: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 4294967295 sectors at 1 (type ee) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdg1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x5 Array UUID : 440dc11e:079308b1:131eda79:9a74c670 Name : Blyth:0 (local to host Blyth) Creation Time : Tue Aug 4 23:47:57 2015 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 9 Avail Dev Size : 5856373760 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Array Size : 20497268736 KiB (19.09 TiB 20.99 TB) Used Dev Size : 5856362496 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Data Offset : 247808 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=247720 sectors, after=14336 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 74476ce7:4edc23f6:08120711:ba281425 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Reshape pos'n : 124311040 (118.55 GiB 127.29 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (8->9) Update Time : Tue Jul 11 23:12:08 2023 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 6f67d179 - correct Events : 181105 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AA.AAAAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdh /dev/sdh: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 4294967295 sectors at 1 (type ee) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdh1 /dev/sdh1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0xd Array UUID : 440dc11e:079308b1:131eda79:9a74c670 Name : Blyth:0 (local to host Blyth) Creation Time : Tue Aug 4 23:47:57 2015 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 9 Avail Dev Size : 5856373760 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Array Size : 20497268736 KiB (19.09 TiB 20.99 TB) Used Dev Size : 5856362496 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Data Offset : 247808 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=247720 sectors, after=14336 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 31c08263:b135f0f5:763bc86b:f81d7296 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Reshape pos'n : 124207104 (118.45 GiB 127.19 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (8->9) Update Time : Tue Jul 11 20:09:14 2023 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors - bad blocks present. Checksum : b7696b68 - correct Events : 181089 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAAAAAAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdi /dev/sdi: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 4294967295 sectors at 1 (type ee) $ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdi1 /dev/sdi1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x5 Array UUID : 440dc11e:079308b1:131eda79:9a74c670 Name : Blyth:0 (local to host Blyth) Creation Time : Tue Aug 4 23:47:57 2015 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 9 Avail Dev Size : 5856373760 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Array Size : 20497268736 KiB (19.09 TiB 20.99 TB) Used Dev Size : 5856362496 sectors (2.73 TiB 3.00 TB) Data Offset : 247808 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=247720 sectors, after=14336 sectors State : clean Device UUID : ac1063fc:d9d66e6d:f3de33da:b396f483 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Reshape pos'n : 124311040 (118.55 GiB 127.29 GB) Delta Devices : 1 (8->9) Update Time : Tue Jul 11 23:12:08 2023 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 23b6d024 - correct Events : 181105 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 3 Array State : AA.AAAAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) $ sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Raid Level : raid6 Total Devices : 9 Persistence : Superblock is persistent State : inactive Working Devices : 9 Delta Devices : 1, (-1->0) New Level : raid6 New Layout : left-symmetric New Chunksize : 512K Name : Blyth:0 (local to host Blyth) UUID : 440dc11e:079308b1:131eda79:9a74c670 Events : 181105 Number Major Minor RaidDevice - 8 1 - /dev/sda1 - 8 129 - /dev/sdi1 - 8 113 - /dev/sdh1 - 8 97 - /dev/sdg1 - 8 81 - /dev/sdf1 - 8 65 - /dev/sde1 - 8 49 - /dev/sdd1 - 8 33 - /dev/sdc1 - 8 17 - /dev/sdb1 $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : inactive sdb1[9](S) sdi1[4](S) sdf1[0](S) sdg1[1](S) sdh1[3](S) sda1[8](S) sdd1[7](S) sdc1[6](S) sde1[5](S) 26353689600 blocks super 1.2 unused devices: <none>