On 08/23/12 12:13, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Is there a way to tell the kernel in which order to load the drives > and assign the drive order in a way that the new drives are assigned > SDC and SDD and the old drives get SDA and SDB? use UUID= in fstab (lsblk -o NAME,KNAME,UUID) and you will get rid of all this headaches (if you have software raid the assembling is done internally based on UUID so you don't have to worry about mdraid) HTH, Adrian