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From: Juri Haberland <list-linux.raid@spoiled.org>
Subject: Re: invalud argument when replacing disk of raid 5 set
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 17:23:19 +0000 (UTC)
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Dan Egli <dan@eglifamily.dnsalias.net> wrote:
> Juri Haberland wrote:

> | What commands do you exactly type and what error messages do you
> | exactly get?
> |
> This is from memory because I"m at home and the machine is at the
> office. But it should be close enough.
> 
> # raidstart /dev/md0
> raidstart: Invalid Argument
> 
> if I let the system auto-start it during boot, it looks like this:
> 
> Starting Raid Devices: /dev/md0
> raidstart: Invalid Argument
> /dev/md0 is not a RAID0 or LINEAR set

I think you should use mdadm:

mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdd1 --run
mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/hdb1

Cheers,
Juri

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Juri Haberland  <juri@koschikode.com>