David Greaves <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> but that command should, assuming the components are >>correct, read as >> >>mdadm --assemble <raiddevice> --force /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/hdb1 >> >>with <raiddevice> replaced by something like /dev/md0. >> > indeed it should. > I don't know if that's why mdadm gave that message. That's what caused the message. The message means that the first device mentioned on the command line wasn't an md device. This has nothing to do with the contents of the device, mdadm needs an md device to operate on. -- Måns Rullgård mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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
