oh ****. yep, i would say it is. Got the command from my "history". So I'm hosed... Why didn't it complain about anything? And what did it do then, I mean it seemed to work, with the right amount of disk space available etc. James On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:50 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > James Pifer wrote: > > I just got my RAID5 with three disks setup yesterday (hdb, hdc, hdd). I > > created it with this command: > > mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/hdb /dev/hdc dev/hdd > > Is that really what you typed ("dev/hdd" rather than "/dev/hdd")? > > Paul. >