On 02/22/2011 12:14 PM, Simon Mcnair wrote: > was this anything to do with the dist-upgrade that I performed ? > > mdadm has upgraded again to > proxmox:~# mdadm -V > mdadm - v3.1.4 - 31st August 2010 No, but you probably can't do any more "--create --assume-clean" operations with that array. As for the assembly errors, its probably an out-of-date mdadm.conf. My server's looks like this: > DEVICE /dev/sd[a-z][1-9] > > ARRAY /dev/md23 UUID=c3cbe096:fc43d939:8aa66230:708c5670 > ARRAY /dev/md22 UUID=1438a239:aa03c3f9:68e051d7:b59a6219 > ARRAY /dev/md21 UUID=4b47d0f6:16f0e352:c67a2185:feb0b573 > ARRAY /dev/md20 UUID=7676c77e:6ae70f65:30a170a2:b1a1b242 Yours probably needs to be updated with the new md0 uuid. Its not your boot drive, so your initramfs shouldn't matter. Phil -- 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