On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Andrew Reid <rei...@bellatlantic.net> wrote: >> Is there a way to make sure my RAID (level 1) won't be started degraded? On >> boot, one disk is found before the others, and the RAID is started before >> the others are seen. (They are seen at different times because I am >> transitioning from USB to eSATA, and the one eSATA disk is seen before any >> USB disk.) I start my RAID manually anyway (not as part of the boot >> process), so I'd be just as happy if it was never automatically started, >> but I *really* don't want it started with just one disk. > > According to the mdadm.conf man-page, you can specify an array > with the name "<ignore>" in that file (and rebuild the initramfs, > presumably), and this will cause mdadm to never automatically > assemble the array. > > You could then presumably assemble it "by hand" specifying > the name to mdadm -A <whatever> later on. > > I actually checked the man-page because I was *sure* there > was a "--no-degraded" option in there somewhere. There is such > an option for the mdadm command, but it's not clear if it can > be gotten in to the boot-time environment or not.
You can also take a look and change # INITRDSTART: # list of arrays (or 'all') to start automatically when the initial ramdisk # loads. This list *must* include the array holding your root filesystem. Use # 'none' to prevent any array from being started from the initial ramdisk. INITRDSTART='all' in "/etc/default/mdadm" before running update-initramfs or dpkg-reconfigure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=eh-aj7jdaan496gffhzj8g9nqu6dha6vtm...@mail.gmail.com
