On 8/31/2010 11:24 AM, fred smith wrote: > >> Most importantly, the "mdmonitor" service should have emailed the root >> user to notify you that your arrays are broken. You should find out why >> you aren't getting that email. > > actually, root got it, but I'm rather lax about checking root's email. > I've changed /etc/mdadm.conf to send it to user fredex in the future. Might be better to add a mail alias to make all of root's email go somewhere useful. Mdmonitor may not be the only thing with important warnings. -- Les Mikesell at gmail.com