On Thursday September 14, steve.cousins@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Neil (or others), what is the recommended way to have the array start up > if you use whole drives instead of partitions? Do you put mdadm -A etc. > in rc.local? I would use mdadm -As is rc.local (or /etc/init.d/mdadm or whatever) whether using partitions or not, but maybe that is just me. This combined with correct information in mdadm.conf gets it reliably right every time. 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