On Sunday May 14, Dexter.Filmore@xxxxxx wrote: > What do I need to do when I want to install a different distro on the machine > with a raid5 array? > Which files do I need? /etc/mdadm.conf? /etc/raittab? both? That depends a lot on the distros. Some really old distro might be using /etc/raidtab, and some new distros don't support it at all. Some distros try to assemble all md arrays in the initrd, and some mess this up in various ways. If your root filesystem isn't on md/raid then it should be enough to just preserve /etc/mdadm.conf, though it is fairly easy to recreate that. "mdadm -Escparititions" gives you a good starting point - edit it to make it just right. If your root is on md/raid, then you'll probably need to look into how the initrd works (assuming the distros install program does just get it right). 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
