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Hey guys, I am trying to create a raid partition type fd for a software raid with a few drives that I have. They are not new drives. I've previously had an ext3 partition on them. The problem that I am experiencing is that when I create the array with mdadm I get an error message that an ext3 filesystem has been found... BUT I have aleardy wiped that out with cfdisk and created a new filesystem type fd with it. I've even tried using good ole fdisk to create the partition and I still get the same error message.....
Code:
cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.14.2)
Disk Drive: /dev/sdb
Size: 80026361856 bytes, 80.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 9729
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
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sdb1 Primary Linux swap / Solaris 4096.19
sdb2 Primary Linux raid autodetect 75927.56
[ Bootable ] [ Delete ] [ Help ] [ Maximize ] [ Print ] [ Quit ] [ Type ] [ Units ] [ Write ]
Toggle bootable flag of the current partition
Code:
mdadm -C /dev/md0 -n2 -l0 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
mdadm: /dev/sda2 is too small: 0K
mdadm: /dev/sdb2 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
size=74148004K mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: create aborted
Whats going on here? I've clearly deleted the old partition and created a new one. Why am I getting this error message?
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