> Why did you create partitions? The whole point of zeroing the first 512 > bytes was to *eliminate* all the partitions... Follow the post of Erwan Leroux, he advise creare a new partition with non-fs data :-/ > No, you did not. It seems you merged bits and pieces from each array > creation method. The array may still function properly. I've never > tried what you've done here. Maybe others have the correct answer. I wish it's everything ok :-) Pol -- 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