Steve Cousins wrote: > MAILADDR cousins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=3 > UUID=39d07542:f3c97e69:fbb63d9d:64a052d3 > devices=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1 If you list the devices explicitly, you're opening the possibility for errors when the devices are re-ordered following insertion (or removal) of any other SATA or SCSI (or USB storage) device I think you want is a "DEVICE partitions" line accompanied by ARRAY lines that have the UUID attribute you've already got in there. -Mike - 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