S.Tindall wrote: >> David Hlácik" wrote on Friday, April 18, 2008 11:40 AM: >>> Hi , currently i have 2 raid devices /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 , i have >>> added 2 >>> new disks, fdisked , created 2 primary partitions with type fd >>> (linux raid autodetect) >>> Now i want to create raid from them >>> >>> root at vmhost1 ~]# mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md2 --level=1 /dev/sdc1 >>> /dev/sdd1 >>> mdadm: error opening /dev/md2: No such file or directory >>> >>> will return that error, what shouldi do? >> >> Not familiar with that error, but try specifying the number of devices: >> >> # mdadm -C /dev/md2 -l1 -n2 /dev/sd[cd]1 >> >> Steve Tindall > > Forgot to ask, does /dev/md2 exists in /dev? > > If not, you can still use makedev to generate it: > > # cd /dev > # MAKEDEV md > > Undocumented, but it still works. > man mdadm -a, --auto{=no,yes,md,mdp,part,p}{NN} Instruct mdadm to create the device file if needed, possibly allocating an unused minor number . . . . . -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc. 30825 Aurora Road Suite 100 Solon Ohio 44139 440-424-2240