From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Helmut Hullen" <Hullen@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: Adding a disk fails
Date: 21 Jan 2011 08:00:00 +0100
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Hallo, Carl,

Du meintest am 20.01.11:

>> If you shutdown the system, at the reboot you should "scan" all the
>> device in order to find the btrfs ones
>>
>> # find the btrfs device
>> btrfs device scan

> This must be done at every boot?

Yes - this advice is added in the Wiki (?).

> If so, where is recommended, in rc.local?

That depends - it has to be done before mounting. And if the device is  
part of the boot partition then you may put the "scan" command into an  
init-ramdisk.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut