55 lines
1.4 KiB
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55 lines
1.4 KiB
Groff
.TH MDADM.CONF 5
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.SH NAME
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mdadm.conf \- configuration for management of Software Raid with mdadm
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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/etc/mdadm.conf
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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.B mdadm
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is a tools for creating an managing RAID devices using the
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.B md
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driver in Linux.
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.PP
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Some common tasks, such as assembling all arrays, can be simplified
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by describing the devices and array in this configuations file.
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.SS SYNTAX
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The file should be seen as a collection of words separated by white
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space (space, tab, or newline).
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Any word that being with a hash sign (#) starts a comment and that
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word together with the remainder of the line are ignored.
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Any line that start with white space (space or tab) is treated as
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though it were a continuation of the previous line.
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Empty lines are ignored, but otherwise each (non continuation) line
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must start with a keyword as listed below. The key words are case
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insensitve and can be abbreviated to 3 characters.
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The keywords are:
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.TP
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.B DEVICE
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A
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.B device
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line lists the devices (whole devices or partitions) that might contain
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a component of an MD array. When looking for the components of an
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array,
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.B mdadm
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will scan these devices and no others.
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The
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.B device
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line may contain a number of different devices (separated by spaces)
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and each device name can contain wild cards as defined by
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.BR glob (7).
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Also, there may be several device lines present in the file.
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.TP
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.B ARRAY
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.SH SEE ALSO
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mdadm (8),
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md (4).
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