From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rrk Subject: raid1 creation problems Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 07:50:44 -0500 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40C9AAA4.4020603@prairie.lakes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids why would mdadm be creating a md device (raid1) that was larger than the partition table? these are two identical seagate 120's --debian 2.4.26 with raid compiled in. i have built the partition tables with fdisk cfdisk and parted same problem everytime . everything is fine up until i boot at which time it say's the superblock is larger than the partition by about 20 or 30 blocks I have built several other raid1 system's over the last year and have not seen this problem before. to add the drives to the array i boot under a recuse disk and sync under the rescue disk. same mdadm version as they were built with. The partition tables match in all cases -- with fdisk i kept everything on cyl boundaries. where and how does mdadm check partition size? thanks rob