From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrew Hodgetts" Subject: Help fixing broken array after power loss Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 19:37:07 +0100 Message-ID: <002001cf7dc8$7e4c3b10$7ae4b130$@btinternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Language: en-gb Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi I have a challenge!! I've been upgrading my array with larger disks, then needed to remove one of the disk from the array (long story) so I shrunk the array and was in the process of reducing the number of disks when I lost power and have now lost the ability to mount the array. So I'm now in a state where I don't know if 9 or 10 disks are in the array, all I know is it will not start. Because I've been swapping disks out I don't know what order the disks are supposed to be in to re-start the array. Running Mdadm 3.2.5 on debian kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 I can 'start' the array with 9/10 disks (using devices a-j alphabetically) but it is not mountable, the filesystem type is 'jbd' when it should be ext4 What can I do to get this working/what info can I provide so you can help? Cheers Andy