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* mdadm No md superblock detected
@ 2013-11-21 23:14 Teitur Ingi Sigurdsson
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Teitur Ingi Sigurdsson @ 2013-11-21 23:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-raid

Hi there and thanks for your service

I’m having a problem with my 4x 2tb raid 5 mdadm array.

After an unexpected shutdown my machine booted into dos busybox, when i typed exit I got the ubuntu(12.04) logo and a message telling me it could not mount my raid drive so I pressed S to skip it.

The first thing I did was to do a complete long test with seagate sea tools to check all my hard drives for errors and all the drives are ok.

I found out that 2 of my drives where not assembling into the array.

When I tried to assemble the array it told me on these two drives there were no md superblocks detected.

I started googling around and trying to find a solution to the problem , found lots of forums and people with similar problems,

When I tried : sudo mdadm —assemble —scan in the first place it responded that i had duplicate UUID in my mdadm config file. So I looked at the config file and found these 2 UUID :
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=3 UUID=f7783df2:bc896dcc:9c729cd1:10366cce
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=3 UUID=48877e00:48c5e221:9c729cd1:10366cce

the weird thing here is that the number of devices here are 3 not 4 like I have always been using, at least I’ve been using 4 2 tb drives to get about 6 tb of space in an array in raid 5, not that it really matters anyways, tried changing it but nothing happens when i execute the command : sudo mdadm —assemble —scan , don’t know why that is, maybe there is another config file I don’t know about

anyways’ i got this command from somebody with a similar problem : sudo mdadm –examine –scan –config=mdadm.conf >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
and got some UUID copy-ed into my config file and tried the scan again but it did not work.

I’ve tried so far : root@tserver:~# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --verbose --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdd missing /dev/sdc missing 
and got this response: mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric
mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric
mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K
mdadm: /dev/sdd appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=1565576192K  mtime=Sat Nov  9 20:54:11 2013
mdadm: /dev/sdd appears to be part of a raid array:
    level=raid5 devices=4 ctime=Tue Jan 11 00:26:47 2011
mdadm: /dev/sdc appears to be part of a raid array:
    level=raid5 devices=4 ctime=Tue Jan 11 00:26:47 2011
mdadm: size set to 1953382912K
Continue creating array? y
mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata
mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Input/output error

i was afraid that the create command could erase my data but some people in the same position suggested it was okay.

I’ve tried the UUID assemble command and nothing happens : mdadm --assemble /dev/md# --uuid=<UUID>

here is my mdadm —examine : 
root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sda
mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sda.
root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sda1
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sda1: No such file or directory
root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sda
mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sda.
root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc:
          Magic : a92b4efc
        Version : 1.2
    Feature Map : 0x0
     Array UUID : 3e74cf9b:b49ecf15:98722946:b19b30b6
           Name : tserver:0  (local to host tserver)
  Creation Time : Mon Nov 18 23:05:33 2013
     Raid Level : raid5
   Raid Devices : 4
 
 Avail Dev Size : 3906767024 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
     Array Size : 5860148736 (5588.67 GiB 6000.79 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 3906765824 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
    Data Offset : 262144 sectors
   Super Offset : 8 sectors
          State : clean
    Device UUID : 3c5cb8d9:072a09df:72a9bf89:fa579762
 
    Update Time : Mon Nov 18 23:05:33 2013
       Checksum : 1fe51ccc - correct
         Events : 0
 
         Layout : left-symmetric
     Chunk Size : 512K
 
   Device Role : Active device 2
   Array State : A.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sdd
/dev/sdd:
          Magic : a92b4efc
        Version : 1.2
    Feature Map : 0x0
     Array UUID : 3e74cf9b:b49ecf15:98722946:b19b30b6
           Name : tserver:0  (local to host tserver)
  Creation Time : Mon Nov 18 23:05:33 2013
     Raid Level : raid5
   Raid Devices : 4
 
 Avail Dev Size : 3906767024 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
     Array Size : 5860148736 (5588.67 GiB 6000.79 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 3906765824 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
    Data Offset : 262144 sectors
   Super Offset : 8 sectors
          State : clean
    Device UUID : 9a96576f:4fba1e25:7077591b:c9987f29
 
    Update Time : Mon Nov 18 23:05:33 2013
       Checksum : 541bf63b - correct
         Events : 0
 
         Layout : left-symmetric
     Chunk Size : 512K
 
   Device Role : Active device 0
   Array State : A.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sde
mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sde.


and sudo fdisk -l : 
sudo fdisk -l

 
Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000397852160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907027055 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
 
Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table
 
Disk /dev/sdc: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
 
Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table
 
Disk /dev/sde: 2000.4 GB, 2000397852160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907027055 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
 
Disk /dev/sde doesn't contain a valid partition table
 
Disk /dev/sdd: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
 
Disk /dev/sdd doesn't contain a valid partition table
 
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00026ec6
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *        2048   937164799   468581376   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2       937166846   976771071    19802113    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5       937166848   976771071    19802112   82  Linux swap / Solaris


can you suggest anything?

My goal is to be able to re arrange my array without any data loss :)

Thanks for reading 

Best Regards 
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* mdadm No md superblock detected
@ 2013-11-30  2:33 Teitur Ingi Sigurdsson
  2013-12-02  6:18 ` NeilBrown
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Teitur Ingi Sigurdsson @ 2013-11-30  2:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: david, linux-raid

Hi there

I tried sending to linux-raid@vger.kernel.org about 10 days ago but got no answer, your guys are probably just busy but incase you did not get the email i’m sending it here as well.

Hi there and thanks for your service

I’m having a problem with my 4x 2tb raid 5 mdadm array.

After an unexpected shutdown my machine booted into dos busybox, when i typed exit I got the ubuntu(12.04) logo and a message telling me it could not mount my raid drive so I pressed S to skip it.

The first thing I did was to do a complete long test with seagate sea tools to check all my hard drives for errors and all the drives are ok.

I found out that 2 of my drives where not assembling into the array.

When I tried to assemble the array it told me on these two drives there were no md superblocks detected.

I started googling around and trying to find a solution to the problem , found lots of forums and people with similar problems,

When I tried : sudo mdadm —assemble —scan in the first place it responded that i had duplicate UUID in my mdadm config file. So I looked at the config file and found these 2 UUID :
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=3 UUID=f7783df2:bc896dcc:9c729cd1:10366cce
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=3 UUID=48877e00:48c5e221:9c729cd1:10366cce

the weird thing here is that the number of devices here are 3 not 4 like I have always been using, at least I’ve been using 4 2 tb drives to get about 6 tb of space in an array in raid 5, not that it really matters anyways, tried changing it but nothing happens when i execute the command : sudo mdadm —assemble —scan , don’t know why that is, maybe there is another config file I don’t know about

anyways’ i got this command from somebody with a similar problem : sudo mdadm –examine –scan –config=mdadm.conf >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
and got some UUID copy-ed into my config file and tried the scan again but it did not work.

I’ve tried so far : root@tserver:~# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --verbose --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdd missing /dev/sdc missing 
and got this response: mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric
mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric
mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K
mdadm: /dev/sdd appears to contain an ext2fs file system
  size=1565576192K  mtime=Sat Nov  9 20:54:11 2013
mdadm: /dev/sdd appears to be part of a raid array:
  level=raid5 devices=4 ctime=Tue Jan 11 00:26:47 2011
mdadm: /dev/sdc appears to be part of a raid array:
  level=raid5 devices=4 ctime=Tue Jan 11 00:26:47 2011
mdadm: size set to 1953382912K
Continue creating array? y
mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata
mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Input/output error

i was afraid that the create command could erase my data but some people in the same position suggested it was okay.

I’ve tried the UUID assemble command and nothing happens : mdadm --assemble /dev/md# --uuid=<UUID>

here is my mdadm —examine : 
root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sda
mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sda.
root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sda1
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sda1: No such file or directory
root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sda
mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sda.
root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc:
        Magic : a92b4efc
      Version : 1.2
  Feature Map : 0x0
   Array UUID : 3e74cf9b:b49ecf15:98722946:b19b30b6
         Name : tserver:0  (local to host tserver)
Creation Time : Mon Nov 18 23:05:33 2013
   Raid Level : raid5
 Raid Devices : 4

Avail Dev Size : 3906767024 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
   Array Size : 5860148736 (5588.67 GiB 6000.79 GB)
Used Dev Size : 3906765824 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
  Data Offset : 262144 sectors
 Super Offset : 8 sectors
        State : clean
  Device UUID : 3c5cb8d9:072a09df:72a9bf89:fa579762

  Update Time : Mon Nov 18 23:05:33 2013
     Checksum : 1fe51ccc - correct
       Events : 0

       Layout : left-symmetric
   Chunk Size : 512K

 Device Role : Active device 2
 Array State : A.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sdd
/dev/sdd:
        Magic : a92b4efc
      Version : 1.2
  Feature Map : 0x0
   Array UUID : 3e74cf9b:b49ecf15:98722946:b19b30b6
         Name : tserver:0  (local to host tserver)
Creation Time : Mon Nov 18 23:05:33 2013
   Raid Level : raid5
 Raid Devices : 4

Avail Dev Size : 3906767024 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
   Array Size : 5860148736 (5588.67 GiB 6000.79 GB)
Used Dev Size : 3906765824 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
  Data Offset : 262144 sectors
 Super Offset : 8 sectors
        State : clean
  Device UUID : 9a96576f:4fba1e25:7077591b:c9987f29

  Update Time : Mon Nov 18 23:05:33 2013
     Checksum : 541bf63b - correct
       Events : 0

       Layout : left-symmetric
   Chunk Size : 512K

 Device Role : Active device 0
 Array State : A.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sde
mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sde.


and sudo fdisk -l : 
sudo fdisk -l


Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000397852160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907027055 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdc: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sde: 2000.4 GB, 2000397852160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907027055 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sde doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdd: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdd doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00026ec6

 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *        2048   937164799   468581376   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2       937166846   976771071    19802113    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5       937166848   976771071    19802112   82  Linux swap / Solaris


can you suggest anything?

My goal is to be able to re arrange my array without any data loss :)

Thanks for reading 

Best Regards 
Teitur--
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* Re: mdadm No md superblock detected
  2013-11-30  2:33 mdadm No md superblock detected Teitur Ingi Sigurdsson
@ 2013-12-02  6:18 ` NeilBrown
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: NeilBrown @ 2013-12-02  6:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Teitur Ingi Sigurdsson; +Cc: david, linux-raid

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On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 02:33:24 +0000 Teitur Ingi Sigurdsson <teitso@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi there
> 
> I tried sending to linux-raid@vger.kernel.org about 10 days ago but got no answer, your guys are probably just busy but incase you did not get the email i’m sending it here as well.
> 
> Hi there and thanks for your service
> 
> I’m having a problem with my 4x 2tb raid 5 mdadm array.
> 
> After an unexpected shutdown my machine booted into dos busybox, when i typed exit I got the ubuntu(12.04) logo and a message telling me it could not mount my raid drive so I pressed S to skip it.
> 
> The first thing I did was to do a complete long test with seagate sea tools to check all my hard drives for errors and all the drives are ok.
> 
> I found out that 2 of my drives where not assembling into the array.
> 
> When I tried to assemble the array it told me on these two drives there were no md superblocks detected.
> 
> I started googling around and trying to find a solution to the problem , found lots of forums and people with similar problems,
> 
> When I tried : sudo mdadm —assemble —scan in the first place it responded that i had duplicate UUID in my mdadm config file. So I looked at the config file and found these 2 UUID :
> ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=3 UUID=f7783df2:bc896dcc:9c729cd1:10366cce
> ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=3 UUID=48877e00:48c5e221:9c729cd1:10366cce
> 
> the weird thing here is that the number of devices here are 3 not 4 like I have always been using, at least I’ve been using 4 2 tb drives to get about 6 tb of space in an array in raid 5, not that it really matters anyways, tried changing it but nothing happens when i execute the command : sudo mdadm —assemble —scan , don’t know why that is, maybe there is another config file I don’t know about
> 
> anyways’ i got this command from somebody with a similar problem : sudo mdadm –examine –scan –config=mdadm.conf >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
> and got some UUID copy-ed into my config file and tried the scan again but it did not work.
> 
> I’ve tried so far : root@tserver:~# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --verbose --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdd missing /dev/sdc missing 
> and got this response: mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric
> mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric
> mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K
> mdadm: /dev/sdd appears to contain an ext2fs file system
>   size=1565576192K  mtime=Sat Nov  9 20:54:11 2013
> mdadm: /dev/sdd appears to be part of a raid array:
>   level=raid5 devices=4 ctime=Tue Jan 11 00:26:47 2011
> mdadm: /dev/sdc appears to be part of a raid array:
>   level=raid5 devices=4 ctime=Tue Jan 11 00:26:47 2011
> mdadm: size set to 1953382912K
> Continue creating array? y
> mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata
> mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Input/output error
> 
> i was afraid that the create command could erase my data but some people in the same position suggested it was okay.
> 
> I’ve tried the UUID assemble command and nothing happens : mdadm --assemble /dev/md# --uuid=<UUID>
> 
> here is my mdadm —examine : 
> root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sda
> mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sda.
> root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sda1
> mdadm: cannot open /dev/sda1: No such file or directory
> root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sda
> mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sda.
> root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sdc
> /dev/sdc:
>         Magic : a92b4efc
>       Version : 1.2
>   Feature Map : 0x0
>    Array UUID : 3e74cf9b:b49ecf15:98722946:b19b30b6
>          Name : tserver:0  (local to host tserver)
> Creation Time : Mon Nov 18 23:05:33 2013
>    Raid Level : raid5
>  Raid Devices : 4
> 
> Avail Dev Size : 3906767024 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
>    Array Size : 5860148736 (5588.67 GiB 6000.79 GB)
> Used Dev Size : 3906765824 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
>   Data Offset : 262144 sectors
>  Super Offset : 8 sectors
>         State : clean
>   Device UUID : 3c5cb8d9:072a09df:72a9bf89:fa579762
> 
>   Update Time : Mon Nov 18 23:05:33 2013
>      Checksum : 1fe51ccc - correct
>        Events : 0
> 
>        Layout : left-symmetric
>    Chunk Size : 512K
> 
>  Device Role : Active device 2
>  Array State : A.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
> root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sdd
> /dev/sdd:
>         Magic : a92b4efc
>       Version : 1.2
>   Feature Map : 0x0
>    Array UUID : 3e74cf9b:b49ecf15:98722946:b19b30b6
>          Name : tserver:0  (local to host tserver)
> Creation Time : Mon Nov 18 23:05:33 2013
>    Raid Level : raid5
>  Raid Devices : 4
> 
> Avail Dev Size : 3906767024 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
>    Array Size : 5860148736 (5588.67 GiB 6000.79 GB)
> Used Dev Size : 3906765824 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
>   Data Offset : 262144 sectors
>  Super Offset : 8 sectors
>         State : clean
>   Device UUID : 9a96576f:4fba1e25:7077591b:c9987f29
> 
>   Update Time : Mon Nov 18 23:05:33 2013
>      Checksum : 541bf63b - correct
>        Events : 0
> 
>        Layout : left-symmetric
>    Chunk Size : 512K
> 
>  Device Role : Active device 0
>  Array State : A.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
> root@tserver:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sde
> mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sde.
> 
> 
> and sudo fdisk -l : 
> sudo fdisk -l
> 
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000397852160 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907027055 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> 
> Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table
> 
> Disk /dev/sdc: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> 
> Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table
> 
> Disk /dev/sde: 2000.4 GB, 2000397852160 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907027055 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> 
> Disk /dev/sde doesn't contain a valid partition table
> 
> Disk /dev/sdd: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> 
> Disk /dev/sdd doesn't contain a valid partition table
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00026ec6
> 
>  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *        2048   937164799   468581376   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb2       937166846   976771071    19802113    5  Extended
> /dev/sdb5       937166848   976771071    19802112   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> 
> 
> can you suggest anything?
> 
> My goal is to be able to re arrange my array without any data loss :)

Unfortunately you seem to have made a mess of things.
That --create command wasn't a very clever idea.  You list 2 devices as
'missing' which of course cannot work with RAID5, so it is no surprise that
it didn't work.

At a guess I'd say that you originally create the array on partitions, and
now you are working with the whole-disk devices, which just adds to the
confusion.

But maybe you used whole disks - I can't really tell.

I think your only option at this point is to try --creating the array in
various combinations with 3 devices and 1 'missing' and then look at the
content (maybe with 'fsck -n') until you find something that works.

Did you have any backups? :-(

NeilBrown

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