Try with # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/hde1 missing It will work. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross Vandegrift" <ross@willow.seitz.com> To: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:48 AM Subject: Creating failed-mode RAID1 with mdadm > Hey everyone, > > Creating a new array today, I decided I should probably start > using mdadm instead of the old tools. I've been using it a bit at home > to do minor things, and it seemed nice. > I've got a box with two 20G ide drives installed. One is > currently the root drive at /dev/hda1 and the other is one of the disks > for the mirrored pair at /dev/hde1. I'm trying to create the array with > /dev/hdg1 as a failed disk, and then move /dev/hda to /dev/hde after I > start booting the machine off of /dev/md0. > When I do: > > # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1 > > I get: > > mdadm: Cannot open /dev/hdg1: No such device or address > mdadm: create aborted > > This makes sense, as /dev/hdg doesn't really exist yet. I've tried > doing: > > # mdadm --set-faulty /dev/md0 /dev/hdg1 > > but it doesn't seem to help. How can I build an array like this via > mdadm? > > Ross Vandegrift > ross@willow.seitz.com > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
