on 11/6/2007 1:08 PM Art Baldini spake the following:
What version are you using, I do not see that in either version of man page for mine.
# rpm -qi mdadm Name : mdadm Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 1.12.0 Vendor: CentOS Release : 2 Build Date: Thu 03 May 2007 01:30:01 PM EDT ...
I usually grab the man pages by Google search. http://linux.die.net/man/8/mdadm Must be from the most current version which I believe is 2.6.3 or 2.6.4, but I can't verify that. But even on my systems I have the following lines;
<quote> MISC MODE Usage: mdadm options ... devices ...
MISC mode includes a number of distinct operations that operate on distinct devices. The operations are: ....
</quote> Which clearly shows options before devices.