On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Shane Johnson wrote: > > Sam Martin wrote: > > >> > ...174 lines snipped... > > It would be super awesome if you would trim the previously quoted > material to just the parts you are responding to before mailing. Thanks. > > Sorry about that - will do from now on.
> > From my experience you have to manually put it in there. Going from > > memory, I believe that *mdadm -E --scan > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf *should > do > > The mdadm man page describes the command in the examples section. > > man mdadm > I would not use a '>' to truncate and rewrite the file. Since there > are other things in that file I think it is best to merge the two by > hand. The man page documents needing the DEVICE directive for > example. But along with it are these that would be lost: > > Thank you for catching that, I thought I had put >> in for append. Probably, also why what I read suggested manual manipulation. Obviously it's really easy to do > and wipe out a file when you meant >>. > Better to write the output > to a temporary file location and then merge them in by hand. > > Good Suggestion. -- Shane D. Johnson IT Administrator Rasmussen Equipment
