On Friday January 27, blata@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > # mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md4 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hde3 > /dev/hdg3 > mdadm: /dev/hde3 appears to contain an ext2fs file system > size=35214480K mtime=Thu Jan 26 13:38:20 2006 > mdadm: /dev/hdg3 appears to contain an ext2fs file system > size=35214480K mtime=Thu Jan 26 13:38:20 2006 > mdadm: size set to 35214400K > Continue creating array? y > mdadm: SET_ARRAY_INFO failed for /dev/md4: Device or resource busy Sounds like /dev/md4 already exists. What does cat /proc/mdstat show? NeilBrown - 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