i have setup raid0 and linear in my computer. now i want to remove it and release my disk. i use raidstop to stop all of md,and remove the file of /etc/raidtab then i use fdisk to delete all of raid disk partitions. at last , i reboot machine. then i want to setup raid again, but it can't work now. Following is my configure and the error output. Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2434 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 383 3076416 83 Linux /dev/hda3 767 2434 13398210 5 Extended /dev/hda4 448 511 514080 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda5 767 783 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 784 800 136521 83 Linux /dev/hda7 801 864 514048+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda8 865 928 514048+ fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 392 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 64 514048+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc4 193 392 1606500 5 Extended /dev/hdc5 193 256 514048+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdc6 257 358 819283+ fd Linux raid autodetect [root@snap /root]# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [multipath] read_ahead not set unused devices: <none> [root@snap /root]# vi /etc/raidtab raiddev /dev/md8 raid-level 0 nr-raid-disks 2 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 32 device /dev/hda7 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc5 raid-disk 1 raiddev /dev/md9 raid-level 0 nr-raid-disks 2 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 32 device /dev/hda8 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc6 raid-disk 1 [root@snap /root]# mkraid /dev/md8 handling MD device /dev/md8 analyzing super-block /dev/hda7: device too small (0kB) mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues. [root@snap /root]# mkraid /dev/md9 handling MD device /dev/md9 analyzing super-block /dev/hda8: device too small (0kB) mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues. Can you tell me where is wrong? thanks a lot. With our best regards, echo - 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