Neil, Okay fair point so I will dump this back out for you! Thanks again for the example translation. Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Neil Brown wrote: > On Wednesday April 9, andre@linux-ide.org wrote: > > > > Neil, > > > > I need some help with your raid management suite. > > I have verified that raidstart is a bust! Then finding your emails about > > it being a bust! > > > > Can you help? > > > Probably, though I generally suggest people send questions like this > to linux-raid, partly because someone else might answer more quickly, > and partly so the Q and A gets archived. > > > > # > > # /etc/raidtab.dba > > # > > raiddev /dev/md0 > > raid-level 1 > > nr-raid-disks 2 > > persistent-superblock 1 > > chunk-size 32 > > > > device /dev/sdb1 > > raid-disk 0 > > device /dev/sdc1 > > raid-disk 1 > > > > mkraid -c /etc/raidtab.dba /dev/md0 > > mdadm -C /dev/md0 --level 1 -n 2 -c 32 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 > > > raidstart -c /etc/raidtab.dba /dev/md0 > > Several options for this, depending on admin policies, but for a > one-off machine, I would: > echo DEV partitions > /etc/mdadm.conf > mdadm --describe --brief /dev/md0 > /etc/mdadm.conf > > edit /etc/mdadm.conf and remove the "devices=" phrase. > > and then whenever you want to start the array: > mdadm --assemble --scan /dev/md0 > > > > raidstop -c /etc/raidtab.dba /dev/md0 > > mdadm --stop /dev/md0 > > 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