On 3 Mar 2004 at 10:40, Neil Brown wrote: > Wrong. > mkfs -t ext3 /dev/md0 > then mount /dev/md0. > Once you have included /dev/hdc1 in an array, don't touch it again - > just access the array (/dev/md0). Sorry, I was being hasty in writing the Email, that's what I did, i.e. mkfs the /dev/md0 drive. That's not the problem. > You missed a step (step 9). You have to reboot so that /dev/md0 is > your root device. Once you have done that and are happy with it, you > add in /dev/hdb1 and let it resync. Ditto: did that, no go. Thanks, C PSYCTC: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling and Therapeutic Communities; practice, research, teaching and consultancy. Chris Evans & Jo-anne Carlyle http://psyctc.org/ Email: chris@psyctc.org - 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