Change preferred minor number of an md device?

2005-01-31 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
Hi to all, md gurus! Is there a way to edit the preferred minor of a stopped device? Alternatively, is there a way to create a raid1 device specifying the preferred minor number md0, but activating it provisionally as a different minor, say md5? An md0 is already running, so mdadm --create

Re: Change preferred minor number of an md device?

2005-01-31 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday January 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all, md gurus! Is there a way to edit the preferred minor of a stopped device? mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 --update=super-minor /dev/ will assemble the array and update the preferred minor to 0 (from /dev/md0). However this won't work