> I tried to create a raid using: > > # mdadm --create device-123 --verbose --level=mirror --raid-devices=2 > --name=device-123 /dev/sda /dev/sdb > mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata > mdadm: array /dev/md/device-123 started. > > But what I got in the end is only /dev/md127. The directory of > /dev/md/ doesn't exist. try mdadm --create /dev/md/device-123, for example: truncate -s 512M disk0 truncate -s 512M disk1 losetup /dev/loop0 disk0 losetup /dev/loop1 disk1 mdadm --create /dev/md/device-123 --verbose --level=mirror --raid-devices=2 /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1 [root@eos ~]# ll /dev/md/device-123 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 28 20:53 /dev/md/device-123 -> ../md127 [root@eos ~]# mdadm --detail --scan ARRAY /dev/md/device-123 metadata=1.2 name=device-123 UUID=03ba5df7:7c5cc933:367e19ef:384665c5 -- 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