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From: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@computer.org>
Subject: Re: Linux software RAID assistance
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:37:54 +0100
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On 19/02/11 13:40, Simon McNair wrote:
> yay. Thanks very much. That worked. I don't quite understand why
> something should need a reinstall to work, but thanks v much.

If a package's binaries have been damaged or deleted, on purpose or 
otherwise, then --reinstall helps. I have no idea what happened to your 
copy of blkid, but --reinstall has brought it back for you.

Jan