system is running Fedora 16 with RAID 1 upon a reboot some but not all of the partitions come up as degraded and its always the same partitions on the same disk (/dev/sda) /dev/md2, /dev/md6, and /dev/md7 (/usr, /boot, & /home respectively, /, /var, and swap mount with no issue) config files are: $ cat /etc/mdadm.conf # mdadm.conf written out by anaconda MAILADDR root AUTO +imsm +1.x -all ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=f7d27973:c1e3562c:c97c2b84:778f9f47 ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=e36e8193:d486ae1b:d9d2d364:ba744b1a ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=0bd93f75:e97de149:0c512d92:67476c03 ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=a3dcd591:ad258de3:429e09ef:aee74491 ARRAY /dev/md6 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=7ef1e8e1:d8d1efd9:bfe78010:bc810f04 ARRAY /dev/md7 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=e496a7cf:f99735d8:4d63b4bd:567000c5 $ sudo sfdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 20023 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0+ 1032- 1033- 8290304 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 1032+ 1988- 957- 7680000 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda3 1988+ 2944- 957- 7680000 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda4 2944+ 20023- 17079- 137184256 5 Extended /dev/sda5 2944+ 3900- 957- 7680000 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda6 * 3900+ 4002- 102- 819200 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda7 4002+ 20023- 16021- 128681984 fd Linux raid autodetect $ sudo sfdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 20023 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 0+ 1032- 1033- 8290304 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 1032+ 1988- 957- 7680000 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb3 1988+ 2944- 957- 7680000 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb4 2944+ 20023- 17079- 137184256 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 2944+ 3900- 957- 7680000 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb6 * 3900+ 4002- 102- 819200 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb7 4002+ 20023- 16021- 128681984 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sd[ab]1 = /dev/md1 /dev/sd[ab]2 = /dev/md2 etc except /dev/sd[ab]5 = /dev/md0 In the past I've tried a simple add of the partition, other times I've tried --zero-superblock but each time after a reboot the problem comes back. suggestions? Thanks, Jeff -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org