While trying to create a software raid set: with the following command: mdadm --create etc etc etc The correct syntax. I get the following error: "/dev/blah appears to contain an ext2fs file system" I have tried the following methods to resolve the error: 1.) deleting the partition, then remaking the partiton with a different partition type. including the compulsory reboots. 2.) clearing the superblock. mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/partition Any ideas? Just dd the parition? -- 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