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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!