Gary Dale wrote: 
> 
> # cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10]
> md0 : active raid6 sdc1[6] sdd1[5] sdb1[4]
>       3907011584 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 8k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3]
> [U_UU]
> 
> md1 : active raid6 sde2[7] sdc2[6] sdd2[5] sdb2[4]
>       3907021448 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 4k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4]
> [UUUU]
> 
> However I can't re-add the 4th partition (/dev/sde1) into the array. For
> example (just some of the thing's I've tried):
> 
> # mdadm --manage  /dev/md0 --add /dev/sde1 --force
> mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sde1 as 7: Invalid argument
> mdadm: Cannot read superblock on /dev/sde1
> # mdadm  --zero-superblock /dev/sde1
> mdadm: Unrecognised md component device - /dev/sde1


Does cat /proc/partitions show sde1 ?

Perhaps the disk has been renamed and you didn't notice.

-dsr-

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