On Wednesday 26 January 2005 07:28, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Steve Witt wrote: > > I'm installing a software raid system on a new server that I've just > > installed Debian 3.1 (sarge) on. It will be a raid5 on 5 IDE disks using > > mdadm. I'm trying to create the array with 'mdadm --create /dev/md0 ...' > > and am getting an error: 'mdadm: error opening /dev/md0: No such file or > > directory'. There are no /dev/md* devices in /dev at the present time. I > > do have the md and raid5 kernel modules loaded. My question is: how do > > the /dev/md* files get created? Are they normal device file that are > > created with MAKEDEV? > > It's odd that they aren't there - they are with Debian 3.0, and have > remained there when I've upgraded a few test servers to testing/Sarge. > > # cd /dev > # ./MAKEDEV md > > should do the business. > A useful trick I discovered yesterday: Add --auto to your mdadm commandline and it will create the device for you if it is missing :) Andrew Walrond - 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
