I have a degraded raid6 (waiting for a replacement disk). The system is unresponsive (shutdown did not complete) but I can still use sysrq with e,i,s,u,b When the boot completes it drops into emergency shell with the array having all members spare in mdstat. 1) How do I properly stop the array in the above situation (before the boot)? 2) How do I properly start the array (after the failed boot). TIA -- Eyal at Home (eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)