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

[James Pifer]

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 14:34 +0000, Robin Hill wrote:
> On Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 09:24:09AM -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> 
> > > I guess you'll have to try adding the --force option.
> > 
> > When I try that I keep getting this:
> > [root at storage ~]# mdadm --force --create --verbose /dev/md0 --assume-clean --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/hdb /dev/hdc dev/hdd
> > mdadm: --create would set mdadm mode to "create", but it is already set to "manage".
> > 
> You'll need to move the --force later in the command, probably after the
> /dev/md0.

It tries, but I still get the same thing :-( :

[root at storage ~]# mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --assume-clean --force --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
[root at storage ~]#

James