Neil Brown said: (by the date of Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:08:47 +1100) > Where do those "'"s come from??? I also have those "'" on one (out of 3) md's. Maybe it's debian specific? Or only debian etch specific? Or only debian /dev/md0 specific.... It's only on /dev/md0, like this: backup:~# mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 01.00.03 Creation Time : Wed Oct 31 09:13:41 2007 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 979924 (957.12 MiB 1003.44 MB) Device Size : 979924 (957.12 MiB 1003.44 MB) Raid Devices : 5 Total Devices : 5 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Fri Nov 13 10:04:02 2009 State : active Active Devices : 5 Working Devices : 5 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Name : 'backup':0 UUID : 75b0f878:79539d6c:eef22092:f47a6e6f Events : 482808 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 5 22 1 1 active sync /dev/hdc1 2 3 1 2 active sync /dev/hda1 4 8 33 3 active sync /dev/sdc1 6 8 17 4 active sync /dev/sdb1 > > What exactly is listed in mdadm.conf for /dev/md0?? nothing. backup:~# cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf # mdadm.conf # # Please refer to mdadm.conf(5) for information about this file. # # by default, scan all partitions (/proc/partitions) for MD superblocks. # alternatively, specify devices to scan, using wildcards if desired. DEVICE partitions # auto-create devices with Debian standard permissions CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes # automatically tag new arrays as belonging to the local system HOMEHOST <system> # instruct the monitoring daemon where to send mail alerts MAILADDR root # definitions of existing MD arrays # This file was auto-generated on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:18:08 +0200 # by mkconf $Id: mkconf 261 2006-11-09 13:32:35Z madduck $ -- Janek Kozicki | -- 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