On Sat, 03 May 2014 20:40:47 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:

> > * SystemRescueCD and the Gentoo minimal installation CD both start
> > any raid arrays they find and apply their own names to them. It is
> > then impossible, or so I thought, to resume an interrupted
> > installation process. Of course, all I had to do was "mdadm
> > --stop /dev/md127" etc.  
> 
> Yes, I noticed that annoyance myself. I would much prefer it to default
> to more logical names.

ISTR that's because of the hostname stored in the RAID, so when you plug
the array into another computer, it doesn't clobber any existing array
names. I had this happen when transplanting an array to a new system.
There is a sequence of commands to reset the names but it was a while ago
and all I remember is that the sequence started with "man lvm".


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Neil Bothwick

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