From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marcin M. Jessa" Subject: Re: Creating an md with 3TB drives. Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:31:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4E82DB7D.4050104@yazzy.org> References: <4E82D53F.3050409@yazzy.org> <20110928182302.39cfd4b0@notabene.brown> Reply-To: lists@yazzy.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110928182302.39cfd4b0@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 9/28/11 10:23 AM, NeilBrown wrote: [...] >> >> Then I used fdisk to change the partition type to Linux raid auto > > You can do that if you like but it will have no effect. The "raid auto" > partition type only means anything on MBR partitions. You don't need to, so > don't bother. Thanks Neil. Not using fdisk worked like a charm. # mdadm -QD /dev/md2 mdadm: bad uuid: UUID=aaa23fb6:a7bce189:b5293030:df5c4a2 /dev/md2: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Wed Sep 28 10:27:31 2011 Raid Level : raid0 Array Size : 5860530176 (5589.04 GiB 6001.18 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Sep 28 10:27:31 2011 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Chunk Size : 512K Name : odin:2 (local to host odin) UUID : 5577bbc0:8ec6a7ff:07aff1ed:5610061c Events : 0 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 49 0 active sync /dev/sdd1 1 8 65 1 active sync /dev/sde1 -- Marcin M. Jessa