On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 19:04 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > On Mon, June 9, 2008 6:12 pm, Gavin Hamill wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 08:25 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > > I suspect the partition is slightly too small. > Check the sizes in /proc/partitions. > > hde5 needs to be at least 174851136K. Well spotted, that man! hde5 is indeed 50000 blocks smaller than the others. I guess the debian installer must use different calculations than cfdisk :( > Newer version of mdadm notice this and report a better > error message (I think 2.6.3 contains the fix). > > So: you might need to repartition the drive and make hde5 a > little bigger. Yup - thanks muchly.. I'll give it a go and report back. Cheers, Gavin. -- 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