From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Force mdadm to not prompt the user
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:48:30 +1000
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:33:12 +0200 Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>=20
> I'm using mdadm in script which setup a system automtically.
>=20
> When creating a RAID array, I'd like mdadm to not prompt the user.
>=20
> Currently I get:
>=20
> # mdadm --create array1 --force --metadata=3D1.0 --level=3Draid1
> --raid-devices=3D3 /dev/vdb1 /dev/vdc1 /dev/vdd1
> mdadm: /dev/vdb1 appears to be part of a raid array:
>        level=3Draid0 devices=3D0 ctime=3DThu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
> mdadm: metadata will over-write last partition on /dev/vdb1.
> Continue creating array?
>=20
> I thought that using --force would do the trick, but it didn't.
>=20
> I'm using mdadm - v3.3 - 3rd September 2013
>=20
> Is there any other way to achieve that ?

run
   man mdadm

search for "prompt".... doesn't find anything.
search for "ask".  Ahh, there is the answer.

NeilBrown

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