Hi All,<br> I am trying to create an MD device. I am using the command:<br>/sbin/mdadm --create --a /dev/md12 --level=1 --run --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda12 /dev/sdb12<br>to create the device, and to dynamically create the device file if needed. What I want is the device file to be created as /dev/md12, but with the -a flag it creates it as /dev/md<first unwsed minor number>.
<br><br>I have tried various options to the -a or --auto, but cannot seem to find the correct syntax. From the man page it says:<br> -a, --auto{=no,yes,md,mdp,part,p}{NN}<br> Instruct mdadm to create the device file if needed, and to allocate an unused
<br> minor number. "yes" or "md" causes a non-partitionable array to be used.<br> "mdp", "part" or "p" causes a partitionable array (2.6 and later) to be used.
<br> The argumentment can also come immediately after "-a". e.g. "-ap".<br><br>Am I doing something wrong, or is there no way to get mdadm to automatically create a specific device file.<br>
<br>Thanks...<br>