Quoting Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On  February 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm currently running a standard v2.2.17 kernel w/ the 'accompanying'
> > raid system (linear).
> 
> Given this, you should be able to run mkraid with complete safety as
> is doesn't actually write anything to any drive.

Hmmm, 'should be'... I'm not sure i liked that sentence... :)

> > And this is what cfdisk tells me about the partitions:
> > sdb1    Primary  Linux raid autodetect     6310.74
> > sdc1    Primary  Linux raid autodetect     1059.07
> > sdd10   Logical  Linux raid autodetect     2549.84
> > sde1    Primary  Linux raid autodetect     9138.29
> > sdf1    Primary  Linux raid autodetect    18350.60
> > sdg1    Primary  Linux raid autodetect    16697.32
> > 
> 
> Autodetect cannot work with old-style arrays that don't have
> superblocks. If you want autodetect, you will need to copy the data
> somewhere, create a new array, and copy it all back.

Oki, what exactly does that mean/tell me?

Should I set the FS type to 83 again?

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