On Fri, 29 May 2015 01:10:52 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Just keep in mind that the UUID that goes into mdadm.conf might not be > > the same UUID returned by blkid. I'm honestly not certain either way. > > You can get the mdadm ID from mdadm --detail --scan. > > Good grief! When is a UUID not a UUID? Or, how can one device have more > than one UUID?
There's the UUID for the partition and the UUID for the filesystem living on it. > > > Two odd things: > > > 1. /dev/md7 is the physical volume in which logical volumes are > > > defined, so I'm surprised to see TYPE="LVM2_member". > > > > I'm pretty sure this is fine. It recognizes it as an LVM pv, so that > > makes it an LVM2 member. > > If you say so. It still smells a bit to me. It makes sense to me. TYPE refers to the filesystem type, look at the blkid output for your boot or swap partition. blkid is simply recognising that this partition is a member of an LVM group. -- Neil Bothwick I have seen things you lusers would not believe. I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab. I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate. All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week. Time to die.
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