On Wednesday May 13, sandeepksinha@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Thanks but I am still confused. Here is what I see on the console. > > > [10:55:16 sinhas]$ sudo mdadm -C /dev/md0 --level 1 -n 2 /dev/sda5 missing > mdadm: /dev/sda5 appears to contain an ext2fs file system > size=19535008K mtime=Sun Apr 5 21:34:00 2009 > mdadm: /dev/sda5 appears to be part of a raid array: > level=raid1 devices=2 ctime=Wed May 13 10:06:33 2009 > Continue creating array? y > mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Invalid argument > mdadm: stopped /dev/md0 Odd. Look for explanatory message in 'dmesg'. 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