swap partition may come up read-only: What device is /dev/sda? root@vamos2:~# smartctl -i /dev/sda smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red (AF) Device Model: WDC WD20EFRX-683UZNO Serial Number: WD-DEADBEEF LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2b73f71d9 Firmware Version: 82.00A82 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Mon Jan 23 14:06:15 2017 CET SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled md1 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sda3[3] sdb3[4](W) sdc3[2] 7811464 blocks super 1.2 [3/3] [UUU] bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk This is not a problem, and can be fixed with ''mdadm /dev/md1 --readwrite'' Array rebuilding: root@vamos2:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md2 : active raid1 sdb4[3] sda4[4] sdc4[2] 1926164748 blocks super 1.2 [3/2] [UU_] [=>...................] recovery = 6.4% (123824128/1926164748) finish=313.1min speed=95918K/sec bitmap: 1/15 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk md1 : active raid1 sda3[3] sdb3[4](W) sdc3[2] 7811464 blocks super 1.2 [3/3] [UUU] bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk md0 : active raid1 sda2[3] sdb2[4](W) sdc2[2] 19530154 blocks super 1.2 [3/3] [UUU] bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk unused devices: The data array didn't come up. I started it with ''mdadm --assemble /dev/md2 /dev/sda4 /dev/sdc4''