From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Mamedov Subject: Re: RAID 5 3-drive array inactive - no superblock - can anything be saved? Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 21:05:19 +0500 Message-ID: <20170310210519.5263a2bb@natsu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Schultz Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:18:19 -0500 Robert Schultz wrote: > >sudo mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd > mdadm: Cannot assemble mbr metadata on /dev/sdb > mdadm: /dev/sdb has no superblock - assembly aborted > > Running the command with any of the disks says the same thing - no > superblock. But it seems that your array was/is on partitions, not disks, so why are you assembling with disks? Use sdb1 sdc1 sdd1 in the assemble command and try again. -- With respect, Roman