Hi,
I've read all the linux raid how-tos, and thought I was ready to take the
plunge on implementing software raid. I've got a fresh install of Debian
Sarge, 2 disks. 3 partitions (/boot, /, swap). So I installed Sarge,
partitioned hda during the installer with regular partitions:
abba:/usr/src# sfdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 2491 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 11 12- 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 12 133 122 979965 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 134 1957 1824 14651280 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
I wanted to do a raid 1. So, then I went and partitioned hdc like:
abba:/usr/src# sfdisk -l /dev/hdc
Disk /dev/hdc: 1870 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdc2 13 137 125 1004062+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdc3 138 1756 1619 13004617+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdc4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
So now I'd build my raid set:
abba:/usr/src# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hda1
/dev/hdc1
mdadm: /dev/hda1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
size=96358K mtime=Thu Apr 8 12:50:04 2004
mdadm: /dev/hdc1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
size=96358K mtime=Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969
mdadm: largest drive (/dev/hdc1) exceed size (96256K) by more than 1%
Continue creating array? n
mdadm: create aborted.
I've google for that "mdadm: largest drive...than 1%" error with no results
Any help?
Thanks
Jay
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