On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:51:09PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:38:29PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:53:57PM -0500, S Scharf 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) > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > I'm just guessing here, since I set up my raid1 when I installed Etch, > > but you told it raid1 and you told it to use two devices but you only > > gave it one device. What happens if you use --raid-devices=1? > > OP is building a deprecated (I think that's the term) array. It seems > to be a common (I used it to build my array) way to migrate a > system. Put one of the two disk array on ide1 while your system is on > ide0. Then build the array with a disk missing. move data onto the > broken array, then add the other disk in and it will sync up. Pretty > slick trick really.
Yes, I understand that. Do you know why he's having a problem? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
