Could anyone tell me how can i avoid the auto assemble of my raid device during boot? I am running: debian 7.0 with kernel 3.9.3-amd64 #cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.9.3-amd64 root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet panic=3 raid=noautodetect #cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes HOMEHOST <system> MAILADDR root ARRAY /dev/md/md1 metadata=1.2 name=zotac:md1 UUID=082dc730:aedd3e21:1820edc4:6f20acd0 ARRAY /dev/md/md0 metadata=1.2 name=zotac:md0 UUID=d260f467:92241c75:0c742da1:8af824f6 both /etc/init.d/mdadm and /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid are disabled. all raid components are set to FD type. And somehow the array is always assembled at boot. I started notice this 'forced auto assemble' after replace the 0.9 metadata to 1.2 metadata. Thanks ! []'s Salatiel -- 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