Real Time's local RedHat mirror down

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Well, I finally got around to upgrading from mdtools to raidtools and the
the journey has been a rough one.

Real Time's local mirror of the Redhat site is down. It looks like 18Gb of
data is sitting unaccessible.

Here is the story:

OLD /etc/mdtab file:

# mdtab

/dev/md0        linear,crc       /dev/sda5 /dev/sdb1    # /home

NEW /etc/raidtab file:

raiddev /dev/md0
        raid-level      linear
        nr-raid-disks   2
        persistent-superblock 1
        device          /dev/sda5
        raid-disk       0
        device          /dev/sdb1
        raid-disk       1

# mkraid /dev/md0
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sda5, 1783183kB, raid superblock at 1783104kB
/dev/sda5 appears to contain an ext2 filesystem -- use -f to override
mkraid: aborted

# mkraid --upgrade /dev/md0
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sda5, 1783183kB, raid superblock at 1783104kB
cannot upgrade magic-less superblock on /dev/sda5 ...
mkraid: aborted

The "-f" command says it will more then likely erase your array, so I'd like
NOT to do that. :-)

Any help on getting this to work would be great.

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