I was curious what you guys make of this?  It was precleared without using any tags (maybe I should use a tag?) and I tried formatting through unmenu before putting on the array.  Any way to make it completely usable? 

 

mkreiserfs 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)

 

Warning: start=64 - this looks like a partition rather than

the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless.

[use the --force option if you really want this]

?? What are you trying to do? Your post didn't have enough information to give a good answer, but what you did post makes me ask, why didn't you just add the freshly precleared drive to an array slot, and press the "yes I'm sure I want to format the new drive" button on the main interface?

 

Or are you trying to accomplish something completely different?

Sorry,  I used unMenu to format it in reiserfs and then put it in the array.  I was just wondering if maybe I was preclearing it wrong or what not.  *shrug*  A little isn't going to make that big a difference.

Sorry,  I used unMenu to format it in reiserfs and then put it in the array.  I was just wondering if maybe I was preclearing it wrong or what not.  *shrug*  A little isn't going to make that big a difference.

You did it wrong.

 

You should NEVER use unMENU to format a drive unless the drive would be used entirely outside of the array and NEVER assigned to the array.

 

Post the results of

fdisk -lu /dev/sdX

and a copy of your syslog (zipped and attached to next post)