Hi, I've been using mdadm for over a year now and really like the utility. Can someone point me to a howto type document that shows how to do various tasks. Like recovering a metadevice. I suspect my situation is not unique and would probably be covered. I have a mother board with 3 sata raid controllers. I have two drives on the first that I use for the OS and a mirror of the OS using mirrordir. I have two 250GB drives on the second sata controller and two on the third. I have put these four drives in a RAID5 metadevice ( /dev/md0 ) using mdadm. I then use LVM to slice/dice md0 into the various filesystems I need. I've run this way for over a year and now want to upgrade my OS. I have been running Mandrake 10.1, and want to move to Mandrivia 2006. My first problem is that my devices are renumbered with the new OS install. Mandrake Mandrivia 1st Controller sda sda sdc sdb 2nd Controller sdb sdc sdd sdd 3rd Controller sde sde sdf sdf Originally, I created the RAID5 device using sdb, sdd, sde, and sdf. Under Mandrivia, I was successful in using mdadm to assemble a RAID5 device, but trying to mount the filesystems ( /dev/vg1/video ) it said they did not exist. I can reboot under my original Mandrake 10.1 install and everything is still there. So, how do I recover these filesystems under the new OS? Please reply to easygreenus@xxxxxxxxx as I'm NOT on this alias. Thanks, Mike __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com - 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