On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 03:49:16PM +0200, Patrik Dahlström wrote: > > Again, you'd do this with overlays only... > I did > $ mdadm --create /dev/md1 --assume-clean --data-offset=128M --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/mapper/sd[abdce] > $ dmesg | tail Hi, the shell globbing style [abdce] actually expands alphabetically, you probably have to write {a,b,d,c,e} instead. $ echo [edcba] a b c d e $ echo {e,d,c,b,a} e d c b a Use 'dmsetup ls' to make sense of the dm-XX (253:XX) numbers. Regards Andreas Klauer -- 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