Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Andrew McGlashan
<andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>>
>> You have "/" set up as a RAID 1 array md0 with sda1 and sdb1 as its
>> components.
>
> No / would be on an internal drive, right now that is not the concern as it
> has nothing to do with the external drive array(s) in question for this
> issue.
Thanks for explaining...
Forget about "/". Your external array is mounted on "/path/to/array"
and its members are sdXA and sdYA. When you plug in another USB drive,
it becomes sdXA or sdYA and mdadm tries to assemble it into the array
even though it doesn't have any mdadm metadata whatsoever.
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