On Nov 2, 2007 8:14 PM, Art Baldini <rootajb at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > I am trying to create an MD device. I am using the command: > /sbin/mdadm --create --a /dev/md12 --level=1 --run --raid-devices=2 > /dev/sda12 /dev/sdb12 > 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>. > > I have tried various options to the -a or --auto, but cannot seem to find > the correct syntax. From the man page it says: > -a, --auto{=no,yes,md,mdp,part,p}{NN} > Instruct mdadm to create the device file if needed, and to > allocate an unused > minor number. "yes" or "md" causes a non-partitionable array > to be used. > "mdp", "part" or "p" causes a partitionable array (2.6 and > later) to be used. > The argumentment can also come immediately after "-a". e.g. > "-ap". > > Am I doing something wrong, or is there no way to get mdadm to automatically > create a specific device file. I've done it like this : mdadm --create /dev/md12 --auto=yes --level=1 --run --raid-devices=2 /dev/... Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the "microsoft approach to programming" and should never be allowed. (Linus Torvalds)