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i'm switching windows server ubuntu , trying software raid1 (mirror) created in windows show in ubuntu. have read possible using mdadm, i'm having trouble.

here i'm trying:
code:
script started on thu 12 jan 2012 12:22:33 gmt graeme@mediacentre:~/desktop$ cat /proc/partitions                              major minor  #blocks  name     8        0  120060864 sda    8        1  117974016 sda1    8        2          1 sda2    8        5    2083840 sda5    8       16 1465138584 sdb    8       17 1465136128 sdb1    8       32 1465138584 sdc    8       33 1465136128 sdc1 graeme@mediacentre:~/desktop$ sudo mdadm --build /dev/md0 --chunk=128 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 [sudo] password graeme: mdadm: array /dev/md0 built , started. graeme@mediacentre:~/desktop$ sudo mkdir /media/winmirror/ mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/winmirror/': file exists graeme@mediacentre:~/desktop$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/md0 /media/winmirror failed read last sector (5860544511): invalid argument hints: either volume raid/ldm wasn't setup yet,    or not setup correctly (e.g. not using mdadm --build ...),    or wrong device tried mounted,    or partition table corrupt (partition smaller ntfs),    or ntfs boot sector corrupt (ntfs size not valid). failed mount '/dev/md0': invalid argument device '/dev/md0' doesn't seem have valid ntfs. maybe wrong device used? or whole disk instead of partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? or other way around? graeme@mediacentre:~/desktop$ exit exit  script done on thu 12 jan 2012 12:23:23 gmt
i same thing when try 64 chunks, , if list disks in other order.

know i'm doing wrong here?

thanks

graeme

i assume, you're following this thread. have tried following of suggestions in thread? windows shut down cleanly, have tried switch order of drives when building array, etc. ?


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