Gordon Henderson said: > > Eg. the PC I'm currently typing this email on is 100 miles away and I > don't particularly want to drive to it to fix it if a disk fails... > > gordon @ unicorn: df -h / > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/md0 236M 20M 204M 9% / > > gordon @ unicorn: cat /proc/mdstat > ... > md0 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hda1[0] > 249856 blocks [2/2] [UU] > ... So what do you do when /dev/hda fails and the computer won't reboot? Have you managed to get it to boot off /dev/hdc when /dev/hda isn't available? Not having to worry about these sorts of things is one reason it's nice to have hardware RAID for at least the boot device. -Dave - 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