Re: mdadm problem creating device
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:53:57PM -0500, S Scharf wrote:
> I installed a new disk and am trying to create a one disk raid 1 on it
> (and will add the second disk later)
>
> but when I run mdadm I get the followng:
>
> $ sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=raid1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda3
> missing
> mdadm: /dev/sda3 is too small: 0K
> mdadm: create aborted
I'm just guessing here, since I set up my raid1 when I installed Etch,
but you told it raid1 and you told it to use two devices but you only
gave it one device. What happens if you use --raid-devices=1?
Doug.
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