Hi David, > Do you have a mdman.conf file that specifies/limits partitions to search? Just the usual "DEVICE partitons" followed by the ARRAY-lines. However, I don't think it's the mdadm.conf, rather the superblocks. Right now my main worry is my array which holds the root filesystem. The others I was able to resurrect (disks at their original ide ports) using the --update-option when assembling. As I cannot do that with the root array (didn't work when I booted off a CD), I'm a bit stuck. When the system starts, it does not even bother to look for a third array component but starts the array degraded. I can then "mdadm -a" the third disk back into the array, it synchronizes and everything looks good. The same thing at the next boot. Isn't there an option which updates all superblocks on an assembled array saying: you partitions are an array and stay an array until your superblock is erased or hell freezes over, whichever happens first. Amen. -- YT, Michael - 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
