On Sunday 24 Aug 2014 14:51:23 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > For several years I've been running with / on /dev/md5 (0.99 metadata), > which is built on /dev/sd[ab]5. At each boot I see a message scroll by > saying something like "No devices found in config file or automatically" > and then lvm continues to assemble md5 anyway and mount its file system. > The rest of my partitions are on /dev/md7 (1.0 metadata), which is built > on /dev/sd[ab]7. Oh, except for /boot, which is on /dev/sda1 with a copy > on /dev/sdb1. > > So I decided to clean up /etc/mdadm.conf by adding these lines: > > DEVICE /dev/sda* /dev/sdb* > ARRAY /dev/md5 devices=/dev/sda5,/dev/sdb5 > ARRAY /dev/md7 devices=/dev/sda7,/dev/sdb7 > ARRAY /dev/md9 devices=/dev/sda9,/dev/sdb9 > > Now at boot time the no-devices error doesn't appear, but I get a blank > line with a red asterisk. > > What am I doing wrong?
I suspect that mdadm is warning you that it can't find any arrays in mdadm.conf and then proceeds to automatically scan and mount RAIDs. If you want to add something in it, then you can use the output of: mdadm --examine --scan and append the relevant line to your mdadm.conf. -- Regards, Mick
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