As the error message points out, you need to type "mkraid --really-force
/dev/md0"
At 06:12 PM 2/11/00 -0500, Sahu, Devaraj wrote:
>Please help me trouble shoot the RAID installation.
>
>I am trying to concatenate 2 scsi drives of 50 GB each using software RAID
>level 1 in Linux 6.1.
>
>
>
>1. I created 2 raid partitions during installation on scsi drives a and
>b. These are /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb1 and of equal number of blocks.
>2. created an /etc/raidtab file and rebooted the machine
>3. did mkraid -f /dev/md0
>4. entered the command for making the file system
>
>
>A log of relevant info is attached.
>
>As you can see, in step 4 I get a message "Invalid argument passed to ext2
>library while setting up superblock."
>
>What can I do to correct this situation?
>
>TIA
>
>Devaraj.
>
>
> <<raidlog.txt>>
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