From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thomas Hicks" Subject: Mdadm issue Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:04:00 -0700 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <006801c22142$d28ed790$2500010a@speedway.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids This is the first time I am setting up raid using the mdadm tool. This is what I am trying to do. The sever is as follows: 2 drives at 10gig 2 drives at 80gig hda2 is / hdd1 is my /home I have the other drives in ad ready and would like to set up the 2 10 gig's as a mirror and the 2 80 gig as raid0 At the shell I run this command mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/hda2 /dev/hdb1 and get the following output: mdadm: /dev/hda2 appears to contain an ext2fs file system size=7269412K mtime=Mon Jul 1 11:56:16 2002 mdadm: /dev/hdb1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system size=7333640K mtime=Mon Jul 1 11:56:29 2002 Continue creating array? y mdadm: SET_ARRAY_INFO failed for /dev/md0: File exists Could someone please help me with this problem. I am having a really hard time finding any info on the web about this.