On Monday January 31, niccolo@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi to all, md gurus! > > Is there a way to edit the preferred minor of a stopped device? mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 --update=super-minor /dev/.... will assemble the array and update the preferred minor to 0 (from /dev/md0). However this won't work for you as you already have a /dev/md0 running... > > Alternatively, is there a way to create a raid1 device specifying the > preferred minor number md0, but activating it provisionally as a different > minor, say md5? An md0 is already running, so "mdadm --create /dev/md0" > fails... > > I have to dump my /dev/md0 to a different disk (/dev/md5), but when I boot > from the new disk, I want the kernel to autmatically detect the device > as /dev/md0. If you are running 2.6, then you just need to assemble it as /dev/md0 once and that will automatically update the superblock. You could do this with kernel parameters of raid=noautodetect md=0,/dev/firstdrive,/dev/seconddrive NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
