Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > This is what I'm doing right now; but I was searching for a way of > doing it earlier on startup. > I'm playing with a non partitionable DS4300 FC, and I would like to > avoid LUN contention. Since it appears to be a SAN of sorts, another option may be to use the blacklist setting for dm-multipath, or if it's a fiber attached system you may be able to mask it at the controller itself using the vendor tools for the controller. nate