Re: /dev/md* Device Files

2005-01-26 Thread Andrew Walrond
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 07:28, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Steve Witt wrote: I'm installing a software raid system on a new server that I've just installed Debian 3.1 (sarge) on. It will be a raid5 on 5 IDE disks using mdadm. I'm trying to create the array with 'mdadm

Re: /dev/md* Device Files

2005-01-26 Thread Steve Witt
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Andrew Walrond wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2005 07:28, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Steve Witt wrote: I'm installing a software raid system on a new server that I've just installed Debian 3.1 (sarge) on. It will be a raid5 on 5 IDE disks using mdadm. I'm

Re: /dev/md* Device Files

2005-01-26 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday January 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A useful trick I discovered yesterday: Add --auto to your mdadm commandline and it will create the device for you if it is missing :) Well, it seems that this machine is using the udev scheme for managing device files. I didn't realize

/dev/md* Device Files

2005-01-25 Thread Steve Witt
I'm installing a software raid system on a new server that I've just installed Debian 3.1 (sarge) on. It will be a raid5 on 5 IDE disks using mdadm. I'm trying to create the array with 'mdadm --create /dev/md0 ...' and am getting an error: 'mdadm: error opening /dev/md0: No such file or