I am trying to determine the syntax to create a raid5 volume with a single failed disk. I am converting the root parition of an existing system to raid5. I need to exclude one disk from the software raid setup. Then copy the data over. Then add in the excluded disk. The synax to perform this operation on a raid 1 volume is: mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-disks=2 missing /dev/hdg1 The same syntax to create a raid volume, does not appear to work: mdadm -v --create /dev/md2 --level=5 --raid-disks=4 -R missing /dev/hdf2 /dev/hdg2 /dev/hdh2 Is their perhaps another way to perform the operation? I can't find any additional documentation items on configure it. I am the author of the debian root software raid doc at: (Howto Convert system to software raid using mdadm.) http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org. -- Luke Computer Science System Administrator Security Administrator,College of Engineering Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
