Re: mdadm problem creating device

On Jan 6, 2008 2:53 PM, S Scharf <ss11223@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I installed a new disk and am trying to create a one disk raid 1 on it
(and will add the second disk later)

(Debian testing compiled with raid built into kernel)
$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [raid1] [raid10] [multipath] [faulty] [raid6]
[raid5] [raid4]
unused devices: <none>

I have two partions on /dev/sda

$sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8b148706

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 30 240943+ fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/sda2 31 517 3911827+ 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda3 518 48641 386556030 fd Linux raid
autodetect


but when I run mdadm I get the followng:

$ sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=raid1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda3
missing
mdadm: /dev/sda3 is too small: 0K
mdadm: create aborted

any help wil be appreciated.

Thanks
Stuart


Thanks for the replies, but I found the problem

The disk had an old file system on it, and the error message was trying to
tell me there wasn't enough
room after the file system on the partition to add the raid superblock. The
problem was I was planning on
reformatting the disk after creating the raid, and the error message was too
vague to fully describe what was
happening. So in the end I used dd to trash the partition and all worked
well.

Stuart

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