On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:34:09PM -0600, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > RAID-Server:/etc# ll rcS.d/*md* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-11-21 22:35 rcS.d/S25mdadm-raid -> > ../init.d/mdadm-raid > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-12-27 18:35 rcS.d/S99mdadm_monitor -> > ../init.d/mdadm-raid > RAID-Server:/etc# ll rc2.d/*md* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2008-11-21 22:35 rc2.d/S25mdadm -> ../init.d/mdadm > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-12-27 18:36 rc2.d/S99mdadm_monitor -> > ../init.d/mdadm-raid What Debian version do you have? There are no mdadm_monitor links in lenny, and I do not have etch systems anymore to check. > Getting back to my dilema, however, I suppose I could simply create > an /etc/rcS.d/S24mounthda4 script that explicitly mounts /dev/hda4 to > /etc/mdadm/bitmap, or I could modify the init.d/mdadm-raid script to > explicitly mount the /dev/hda partition if it is not already mounted. > Editing the init.d/mdadm-raid script is a bit cleaner and perhaps clearer, > but any update to mdadm is liable to wipe out the modifications to the > startup script. In Debian, modifications to init scripts are preserved during upgrade unless you explicitely request them to be overwritten. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- 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