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diff --git a/mdadm.conf.5 b/mdadm.conf.5 index 7b45522..9739010 100644 --- a/mdadm.conf.5 +++ b/mdadm.conf.5 @@ -128,6 +128,22 @@ a group of arrays is that will, when monitoring the arrays, move a spare drive from one array in a group to another array in that group if the first array had a failed or missing drive but no spare. + +.TP +.B auto= +This option declares to +.B mdadm +that it should try to create the device file of the array if it +doesn't already exist, or exists but with the wrong device number. + +The value of this option can be "yes" or "md" to indicate that a +traditional, non-partitionable md array should be created, or "mdp", +"part" or "partition" to indicate that a partitionable md array (only +available in linux 2.6 and later) should be used. This later set can +also have a number appended to indicate how many partitions to create +device files for, e.g. +.BR auto=mdp5 . +The default is 4. .RE .TP @@ -191,6 +207,14 @@ ARRAY /dev/md4 uuid=b23f3c6d:aec43a9f:fd65db85:369432df ARRAY /dev/md5 uuid=19464854:03f71b1b:e0df2edd:246cc977 .br spare-group=group1 +.br +# /dev/md/home is created if need to be a partitionable md array +.br +# any spare device number is allocated. +.br +ARRAY /dev/md/home UUID=9187a482:5dde19d9:eea3cc4a:d646ab8b +.br + auto=part MAILADDR root@mydomain.tld .br |