Hi, I have two disks (same size, same partitions) in raid1, but to the / fs i cannot add both hda's:
/etc/raidtab: [..] # /usr mirror raiddev /dev/md2 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 32 persistent-superblock 1 device /dev/hdb2 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hda2 raid-disk 1 # / mirror raiddev /dev/md1 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 32 persistent-superblock 1 device /dev/hdb1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hda1 failed-disk 1 ~ # mount /dev/md1 on / type ext2 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) /dev/sda3 on /oradata type ext2 (rw) /dev/sda2 on /orapps type ext2 (rw) /dev/md4 on /opt type ext2 (rw) /dev/md3 on /var type ext2 (rw) /dev/md2 on /usr type ext2 (rw) ~ # ~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] read_ahead 1024 sectors md1 : active raid1 hdb1[0] 4200896 blocks [2/1] [U_] md2 : active raid1 hda2[1] hdb2[0] 6297408 blocks [2/2] [UU] md3 : active raid1 hda3[1] hdb3[0] 6297408 blocks [2/2] [UU] md4 : active raid1 hda4[1] hdb4[0] 3212928 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> ~ # ~ # uname -a Linux ora 2.4.18 #1 SMP Wed May 15 13:10:57 CEST 2002 i686 unknown ~ # problem: ~ # raidhotadd /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 /dev/md1: can not hot-add disk: invalid argument. ~ # in the log: md: trying to hot-add hda1 to md1 ... md: can not import hda1, has active inodes! md: error, md_import_device() returned -16 what am i supposed to do, to get rid of those ugly active inodes ? ~ # cat /proc/mounts /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 /dev/sda3 /oradata ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/sda2 /orapps ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/md4 /opt ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/md3 /var ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/md2 /usr ext2 rw 0 0 ~ # ls -l /dev/rooot ls: /dev/rooot: No such file or directory ~ # ?? any help is appreciated, tia -- charlie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]