From: "CoolCold" <coolthecold@xxxxxxxxx> > Yes, he should provide correct /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and > update-initramfs -u on md boot, smth like > chroot /mnt/md0 > update-initramfs -u How would this help in a system that doesn't ramdisk built in to the kernel or as a module? Or does it change some other stuff? I started looking at the stuff that was copied to md0 and /md0/dev is empty. Looking through the guides I found a few things. One said that using cp had to be from root or not everything would get coppied. I used sudo but I know some things require you to root. Also this: =============================== # rsync -avHhx --progress / /mnt/raid-md0 * If the system wasn't previously in single user mode, move to single user mode and update the data that changed during the first copy: (--delete flag tells rsync to delete files from the destination which do not exist on the source): # rsync -avHhx --progress --delete / /mnt/raid-md0 * Create needed device nodes: # cd /mnt/raid-md0/dev/ && MAKEDEV generic =============================== Using rsync from single user mode still left /mnt/md0/dev empty. I read up in "makedev generic" and it seems to be a shotgun fix adding way more then is needed. Is there a way to create just what is in /dev? -- 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