Did you try the --really--force switch? My syntax????:-)
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Anthony Di Paola
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 5:20 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Problems with the Persistent superblock
>
>
> Hi all
> I'm presently experimenting with software RAID5 and I am
> running into a
> little problem. I cannot run mkraid on a md device that has
> allready had
> mkraid run on it. mkraid comes back with the following message
>
> handling MD device /dev/md0
> analyzing super-block
> disk 0: /dev/sda1, 2610531kB, raid superblock at 2610432kB
> /dev/sda1 appears to be already part of a raid array -- use -f to
> force the destruction of the old superblock
> mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
>
>
> Using -f, --force is of no help. I am successful at running
> mkraid if I
> add the following line to my raidtab file (which I would like
> to avoid)
>
> persistent-superblock 0
>
> Is there any way to destroy and re-create the array
> (there isn't any
> data to be worried about) without having to make this change
> to my raidtab
> file?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Anthony Di Paola
> Systems Administrator
> Parametric Technology Corporation
> phone: (416) 593 4823 x 328
> fax: (416) 593 4808
>
>
>
