-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday January 27, blata@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Please don't take a discussion off a mailing list once it has started > there. Other people might be listening, and it is useful to have any > answers in the archives. > > So if you want further help on this, please continue to send your mail > to linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > NeilBrown > > > > > > Neil Brown wrote: > >>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 > > > cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : > md2 : inactive hdc3[0] > 8723200 blocks > md3 : inactive hdg1[0] > 61440448 blocks > md4 : inactive hdg3[0] > 35214400 blocks > md1 : inactive hdc2[0] > 20482752 blocks > md0 : inactive hdc1[0] > 104320 blocks > unused devices: <none> > > I got this only after doing the following. > > mdadm --manage --add /dev/md2 /dev/hdc3 > > for each md device. If I then go back and try to add /dev/hda1 to the md0 > I get this. > > mdadm --manage --add /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 > mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/hda1: Device or resource busy > > this email includes all new informaiton for me. but I still am unable to > add the drives with the actual data on them. > sorry didn't realize just responding took the tread off list. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD3Xonv+6+qSFv3TURAuKiAJ9nIYIcWcRfUycNGLg49H7WIKbIBgCgpKte R+zZ9W1/KAJH4If+ncNdo5E= =/n3B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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
