[opensuse] Re: Deleting /dev/md1 -- will other MDs get renumbered?



Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 09:57 +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote:

When I delete the Soft-RAID device /dev/md1 -- will the device
names of the following RAID devices (i.e., /dev/md2, /dev/md3,
etc.) stay the same on reboot, or will they be renumbered?

"Knowing the answer" might be something different then done-it-myself...

[...] i decided to completely remove all disks* (with mdadm) [...]
The five disks belonging to md1 just remained belonging to md1

Does that answer your Q?

Thanks a lot for your quick answer!

And you're right, hearing from somebody who tried it out gives more
confidence it doing it myself.

Cheers,
Joachim

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