On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:26:35PM +0000, John Reeves wrote:

# mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf

And thats when the whole "assemble" on boot problem came from.  I
presume that the above command (--detail --scan)  is not the correct way
to make the mdadm.conf file - how should it be made?

It's correct, but as was already said it is not enough. On Debian you
can use the /usr/share/mdadm/mkconf script that spits out a complete
mdadm.conf.

Gabor

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