Good catch. /dev/sda1 was a scsi device in a former life. Correcting that fixed the problem. Thanks! Dan Williams wrote: > On 10/13/07, Hod Greeley <hod-lrvko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I tried to create a raid device starting with >> >> foo:~ 1032% mdadm --create -l1 -n2 /dev/md1 /dev/sda1 missing >> mdadm: /dev/sda1 is too small: 0K >> mdadm: create aborted >> > > Quick sanity check, is /dev/sda1 still a block device node with major > number 8 and minor number 1, i.e. does the following fix the issue?: > > mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1 > > <snip> > >> Thanks, >> Hod Greeley >> > > -- > Dan - 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