From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: gannan10@comcast.net
Subject: Re: error during raid config
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:13:30 +0000
Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org
Message-ID: <011620042013.18826.45cf@comcast.net>
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To: Steven Ihde <sihde@cs.stanford.edu>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
List-Id: linux-raid.ids

so what do I do now???
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:18:07PM +0000, gannan10@comcast.net wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I get the following error when I tried to setup my raid:
> > 
> > # mkraid /dev/md0
> > handling MD device /dev/md0
> > analyzing super-block
> > disk 0: /dev/hda1, 489951kB, raid superblock at 489856kB
> > /dev/hda1 is mounted
> > mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
> 
> I use mdadm, not mkraid, but it appears the problem is right there:
> "/dev/hda1 is mounted".  Probably if you have a mounted filesystem on
> /dev/hda1, you cannot add it to the raid array.  Once you've created
> the raid array you can mount /dev/md0 instead of /dev/hda1.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> 
>