GNOME desktop confused by RAID-1 volume

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 10/06/2007 04:24 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Recently, I've noticed that after logging in, a RAID-1 volume is
> displayed two times. The same two hdd icons, the same Name, the same
> "Properties" are displayed.
> 
> When I choose "Unmount Volume" via the context menu, the second icon
> stays on the desktop. All its details in the properties dialog change
> to "Volume: home", and indeed the details for my /home partition are
> displayed. The "Name" is wrong though, as it's still the size of the
> RAID-1 volume. When I want to unmount the volume (just as a test) I'm
> asked "Do you want to empty the trash before you umount?" and the
> dialog explains what that would yield. If I choose not to empty the
> trash and proceed, there is an error dialog "Cannot unmount volume -
> The volume is not mounted" (sure, it's /home). When I mount the RAID-1
> volume again, both desktop icons refer to it again.
> 

Was there anything on the second drive before it was put into the
RAID1 array? If it was labeled /home before, somehow the system still
sees the old label (maybe because the process of creating a RAID array
doesn't properly clear non-raid metadata at the beginning of the drive.)