On Friday July 7, ewan.grantham@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > My RAID-5 array is composed of six USB drives. Unfortunately, my > Ubuntu Dapper system doesn't always assign the same devices to the > drives after a reboot. However, mdadm doesn't seem to like having an > mdadm.conf that doesn't have a Devices line with specified device > names. Sure it does DEVICE /dev/sd* or DEVICE partitions > > Anyway to setup an mdadm.conf so that it will just assemble the drives > using the UUID of the array? Or is the trick to not have an mdadm.conf > and add something to a runlevel script? > Yes. DEVICE partitions ARRAY /dev/md0 UUID=what:ever:it:ius ARRAY /dev/md1 UUID=uuid:for:md:one 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