On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Steve Witt wrote:
> I'm installing a software raid system on a new server that I've just
> installed Debian 3.1 (sarge) on. It will be a raid5 on 5 IDE disks using
> mdadm. I'm trying to create the array with 'mdadm --create /dev/md0 ...'
> and am getting an error: 'mdadm: error opening /dev/md0: No such file or
> directory'. There are no /dev/md* devices in /dev at the present time. I
> do have the md and raid5 kernel modules loaded. My question is: how do the
> /dev/md* files get created? Are they normal device file that are created
> with MAKEDEV?
It's odd that they aren't there - they are with Debian 3.0, and have
remained there when I've upgraded a few test servers to testing/Sarge.
# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV md
should do the business.
Gordon
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