Hi ,
I have linux 2.2.13 (SuSE) and a problem with a raid1.
I included 2 new SCSI-HD, in my system, created 3 Partitions sda1..3,
sdb1..3 (3x3GB), and i will use only a part of this, so I created
/etc/raidtab
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raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 4
device /dev/sda1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb1
raid-disk 1
# mkraid /dev/md0
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handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sda1, 3084448kB, raid superblock at 3084352kB
/dev/sda1 appears to contain an ext2 filesystem -- use -f to override
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
so what i do is
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# mkraid --really-force /dev/md0
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DESTROYING the contents of /dev/md0 in 5 seconds, Ctrl-C if unsure!
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sda1, 3084448kB, raid superblock at 3084352kB
disk 1: /dev/sdb1, 3084448kB, raid superblock at 3084352kB
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
I can't find any wrong messages in /var/log/messages
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Feb 11 16:17:19 nameserv -- MARK --
Feb 11 16:19:22 nameserv kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 17916240 [8748 MB] [8.7 GB]
Feb 11 16:19:22 nameserv kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
Feb 11 16:19:24 nameserv kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 17916240 [8748 MB] [8.7 GB]
Feb 11 16:19:24 nameserv kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
Feb 11 16:20:58 nameserv kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 17916240 [8748 MB] [8.7 GB]
Feb 11 16:20:58 nameserv kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
Feb 11 16:21:00 nameserv kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 17916240 [8748 MB] [8.7 GB]
Feb 11 16:21:00 nameserv kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
#cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1]
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
Do you have a idea what is wrong ???
dietmar
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