Setting up Ubuntu 10.04 on software raid fails

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Willi Geffers <geffers at informatik.rwth-aachen.de> [2010.08.12.1722 +0200]:
>     md4 : active raid1 sdb[1] sda[0]
>           464948160 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> 
> The system log contains corresponding lines
> 
>     [    4.307147] md4: detected capacity change from 0 to 476106915840
>     [    4.308112]  md4: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 p7 >
>     [    4.386639] md4: p7 size 929896448 exceeds device capacity,
> limited to end of disk

Looks like /dev/sd[ab] were previously part of a different array.

Update your backup and run mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sd[ab] as root.

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