Re: Requesting replace mode for changing a disk

Neil Brown
2009-05-13T10:51:34Z

On Wednesday May 13, sandeepksinha@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Thanks but I am still confused. Here is what I see on the console.
>
>
> [10:55:16 sinhas]$ sudo mdadm -C /dev/md0 --level 1 -n 2 /dev/sda5 missing
> mdadm: /dev/sda5 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
> size=19535008K mtime=Sun Apr 5 21:34:00 2009
> mdadm: /dev/sda5 appears to be part of a raid array:
> level=raid1 devices=2 ctime=Wed May 13 10:06:33 2009
> Continue creating array? y
> mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Invalid argument
> mdadm: stopped /dev/md0

Odd. Look for explanatory message in 'dmesg'.

NeilBrown