From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wols Lists Subject: Re: My md won't assemble even when disks are in clean state. Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 21:55:37 +0100 Message-ID: <593B0B49.5000102@youngman.org.uk> References: <4353246d-a092-e342-6ef7-091d8e9d77c5@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4353246d-a092-e342-6ef7-091d8e9d77c5@gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux Raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 09/06/17 06:44, Ram Ramesh wrote: > Thanks. That did it. I was able to assemble. It assembled degraded and I > --re-added the remaining drives and it accepted without any issue. There > was no rebuild after --re-add which is consistent with the examine > output above that all disks are clean. Did fsck a couple of times for a > good measure and things seem normal now. Just added a note to that effect to the "When things go wrogn" section of the front page of the wiki. Arrays left partially assembled on boot seem such a common problem that a one-liner there seems a fairly good idea. Cheers, Wol