From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Klauer Subject: Re: restore 3disk raid5 after raidpartitions have been setup with xfs filesystem by accident Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 20:03:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20160921180318.GA6633@metamorpher.de> References: <20160921171511.GA6381@metamorpher.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Simon Becks Cc: Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 07:23:42PM +0200, Simon Becks wrote: > But this disk was not in the raid for almost 2 month. ? I'm not suggesting to use this disk. Well, not yet anyway. It might be an option if everything else fails... You posted this output assuming that the other disks were set up the same way, yes? In that case overlay + mdadm --create (with the settings you showed) is what you do. Regards Andreas Klauer