md raid 5 not working

[Roberto Ragusa]

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:

> I realized I had once used the entire drives in a md RAID 5 set instead
> of building the RAID 5 on partitions.  I had outdated md superblocks
> on /dev/sd[bde]!

In fact, I forgot to mention in my reply that this was a little suspicious:

> Preferred Minor : 2

I guess you had md2 on entire disks, and then switched to md3 for partitions.


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