Bug#597030: Fails to start raids after growing

[Goswin von Brederlow]

martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> writes:

> also sprach Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b at web.de> [2010.09.16.0222 +0200]:
>> after growing my raids by one disk the /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid refuses
>> to start my raid arrays. The reason for this seems to be that I didn't
>> adjust the "num-devices" listed in mdadm.conf yet. Correcting the
>> num-devices makes the script work.
>
> Why do you have num-devices there? Did mkconf put it there?

Must have. Something created the file initially and I only copied and
edited existing entries when I added/removed/changed a raid device. But
the initial file is quite old.

MfG
        Goswin