[mythtv-users] Totally OT - but need help wit RAID5 array

Robin Hill myth at robinhill.me.uk
Fri Nov 17 13:59:30 UTC 2006


On Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 07:57:31AM -0500, James Pifer wrote:

> Well, it won't seem to let me do it:
> [root at storage ~]# mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --assume-clean --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/hdb /dev/hdc dev/hdd
> mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric
> mdadm: chunk size defaults to 64K
> mdadm: /dev/hdb appears to contain an ext2fs file system
>     size=312581632K  mtime=Wed Nov 15 09:54:22 2006
> mdadm: /dev/hdb appears to be part of a raid array:
>     level=raid5 devices=3 ctime=Wed Nov 15 09:42:22 2006
> mdadm: /dev/hdc appears to be part of a raid array:
>     level=raid5 devices=3 ctime=Wed Nov 15 09:42:22 2006
> mdadm: Cannot open dev/hdd: No such file or directory
> mdadm: create aborted
> 
> What do you think?
> 
I guess you'll have to try adding the --force option.

Cheers,
        Robin
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