At 04:50 PM 11/4/99 -0500, you wrote:

>What are the consequences of mkraid --reallyforce
>
>I need to test raid on my partitions
>
>/dev/hde1 and /dev/hde2
>
>i have configured the /etc/raidtab file as needed.
>
>when i use mkraid /dev/md0
>
>it tells me to try mkraid --force (i.e. reallyforce).
>
>I have no data whatsoever on either of these two partitions.
>and will put data in after i have installed raid.


mkraid --really-force will force the partitions to be made into raid 
devices, adding the raid superblocks etc.  After it finishes, then you must 
do "mke2fs /dev/md0".  Once it's finished, mount it and off it goes.

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