On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:11:40PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > Hi! Hello, > > And that the point: because I continued to install the system, it > > worked, but when I rebooted, the kernel did not autodetect these raid > > arrays, only md0 (/dev/hd[ac]2). Quite annoying. > > Do you have some idea why the raid arrays were not autodetected? No. :-( I don't know either how autodetection work. > This is because cfdisk can not work with partition tables where the > order of the logical partitions on the disk does not follow the order of > their numbers. This was exactly what partman created here because hda7 > was on the disk before hda5 and hda6. > > Why partman/parted numbers partitions in this way is another story. In > general this is because parted tries not to change the partition numbers > if possible. When you removed you partitions there was no choice but > latter when you created hda7 there was no need to renumber hda5 and hda6 > as cfdisk would do. Thanks, that's a good explication. Maybe some options to reorder numbers of partitions could be add to partman ? It should be useful. -- Julien Danjou .''`. Debian developer : :' : http://julien.danjou.info `. `' http://people.debian.org/~acid `- 9A0D 5FD9 EB42 22F6 8974 C95C A462 B51E C2FE E5CD
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