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From: Pim Zandbergen <P.Zandbergen@macroscoop.nl>
Subject: Re: freshly grown array shrinks after first reboot - major data loss
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:21:12 +0200
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On 1-9-2011 6:48, John Robinson wrote:
> you should be using partition type DA (Non-FS data)
using gdisk (GPT) or fdisk (MBR) ?


> and an initrd to assemble your arrays. 

Booting from the array is not required. I guess the Fedora init scripts
will assemble the array from /etc/mdadm.conf

Thanks,
Pim