Hi again, all -- ...and then David T-G home said... % ...and then David T-G home said... % % % % ...and then Wol said... % % % ... % % % I wonder if a controlled reboot would fix it. Or just do a --stop followed % % % % I've tried a couple of reboots; they're stuck that way. I'll try the % % stop and assemble. % [snip] % % Stopping was easy: ... % % Restarting wasn't as impressive: % % diskfarm:~ # for A in 51 52 53 54 55 56 ; do mdadm --assemble /dev/md$A /dev/sd[dcblfk]$A ; done % mdadm: /dev/md51 assembled from 3 drives - not enough to start the array. ... % diskfarm:~ # grep md51 /proc/mdstat % md51 : inactive sdk51[6](S) sdl51[4](S) sdf51[5](S) sdc51[1](S) sdd51[3](S) sdb51[0](S) % % Still all spares. And here I was hoping this would be easy ... In the end, after a few more tries, --stop /dev/mdNN --assemble --force /dev/mdNN /dev/sd{d,c,b,l,f,k}NN worked, at which point md50 the linear array happily lit itself up. So far, all seems good. Yay! Now about the size ... Thanks again & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt