I force assembled the array - and it seems to have worked to a point
sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Thu Aug 16 09:52:47 2018
Raid Level : raid6
Array Size : 35162345472 (33533.43 GiB 36006.24 GB)
Used Dev Size : 5860390912 (5588.90 GiB 6001.04 GB)
Raid Devices : 8
Total Devices : 6
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Wed Apr 21 12:26:21 2021
State : clean, degraded
Active Devices : 6
Working Devices : 6
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Consistency Policy : resync
Name : ARTSERVERZ:0
UUID : ea7ff0be:03a20678:c211e74b:7b66d018
Events : 137283
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 64 0 active sync /dev/sde
- 0 0 1 removed
2 8 16 2 active sync /dev/sdb
3 8 32 3 active sync /dev/sdc
- 0 0 4 removed
5 8 96 5 active sync /dev/sdg
6 8 48 6 active sync /dev/sdd
7 8 80 7 active sync /dev/sdf
but when I try to mount it I get
sudo mount /dev/md0 /media/EmpireDellRaid/
mount: /media/EmpireDellRaid: unknown filesystem type 'jbd'.
If I force a file system I get
sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/md0 /media/EmpireDellRaid/
mount: /media/EmpireDellRaid: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
if I do a lsblk -f I get
sdb linux_raid_member ARTSERVERZ:0 ea7ff0be-03a2-0678-c211-e74b7b66d018
└─md0 jbd 5fdaf11a-39b5-4b78-adb5-84ed03033c47
sdc linux_raid_member ARTSERVERZ:0 ea7ff0be-03a2-0678-c211-e74b7b66d018
└─md0 jbd 5fdaf11a-39b5-4b78-adb5-84ed03033c47
sdd linux_raid_member ARTSERVERZ:0 ea7ff0be-03a2-0678-c211-e74b7b66d018
└─md0 jbd 5fdaf11a-39b5-4b78-adb5-84ed03033c47
sde linux_raid_member ARTSERVERZ:0 ea7ff0be-03a2-0678-c211-e74b7b66d018
└─md0 jbd 5fdaf11a-39b5-4b78-adb5-84ed03033c47
sdf linux_raid_member ARTSERVERZ:0 ea7ff0be-03a2-0678-c211-e74b7b66d018
└─md0 jbd 5fdaf11a-39b5-4b78-adb5-84ed03033c47
sdg linux_raid_member ARTSERVERZ:0 ea7ff0be-03a2-0678-c211-e74b7b66d018
└─md0 jbd
Any thoughts?
thanks