Jeff Sadino wrote:
> Backups? I wish :) I will now.
> But looking closer, that md1 is not my OS partition, just a data
> partition. If I take that md1 entry out of the raidtab file and restart
> the computer, I would think that it would start up just fine, minus the
> data partition (and for the moment neglecting any vital programs that
> might be installed on that partition). My question is when I start the
> computer back up, in order to start up without that partition there any
> more, will the OS write any new files or anything that will not be
> reversible?
You'll need to take the mount point out of /etc/fstab to come up without it. I
don't think it even matters that the raid assembly fails but not being able to
mount everything in fstab is fatal.
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Les Mikesell
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