On Thursday April 3, kisselev@mail.desy.de wrote: > > Here is the question: is there an easy way to change RAID device ID? > If not, is the following sequence correct in my case (1-disk RAID linear): > > - stop device; > - 'dd' 4k RAID superblock from /dev/sda2 at offset 292021440; > - change 4-byte field at offset 11 (md_minor) to the desired number > (say '5' for md5); > - copy superblock back; > - reboot; Sort of, but it is much easier to get mdadm to do this. Get mdadm 1.2.0 and check out --assemble --update=super-minor in the documentation. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html