Along the same lines as above: Should I simply modify the init script /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid script to add in --run to the line which starts the raid?? ie. change the line $MDADM -A -s to $MDADM -A -s --run so that even if the array is degraded it will start?? Mitchell Please tell me if I am really doing something really dangerous and dumb ... Thanks! Mitchell Laks #!/bin/sh # # Start any arrays which are described in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and which are # not running already. # # Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Mario Jou/3en <joussen@xxxxxxxxxx> # Distributable under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2. MDADM=/sbin/mdadm MDRUN=/sbin/mdrun CONFIG=/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf DEBIANCONFIG=/etc/default/mdadm test -x $MDADM || exit 0 AUTOSTART=true test -f $DEBIANCONFIG && . $DEBIANCONFIG case "$1" in start) if [ "x$AUTOSTART" = "xtrue" ] ; then if [ ! -f /proc/mdstat ] && [ -x /sbin/modprobe ] ; then /sbin/modprobe -k md > /dev/null 2>&1 fi test -f /proc/mdstat || exit 0 echo "Starting raid devices: " if [ -f $CONFIG ] && [ -x $MDADM ] ; then $MDADM -A -s elif [ -x $MDRUN ] ; then $MDRUN fi echo "done." fi ;; stop|restart|reload|force-reload) ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 - 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