On 08/19/2012 09:42 AM, Jan Ceuleers wrote: ... > For the first time ever I tried mdadm's incremental mode. So before > issuing the above two commands I tried the following; > > root@zotac:~# mdadm -I /dev/sde2 > mdadm: failed to add /dev/sde2 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument. I have now straced this, and here are the offending lines: ioctl(4, 0x40140921, 0x7fff4bda3858) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) write(2, "mdadm: failed to add /dev/sde2 t"..., 62mdadm: failed to add /dev/sde2 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument. fd 4 is /dev/md0 How does one decode the ioctl call? Thanks, Jan -- 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