On Thu 20 January 2011 22:55:54 Hubert Kario wrote:
> You still have a btrfs on /dev/sdc, do a 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=8192
> (overkill, but I don't remember which blocks have to be zeroed to destroy 
> btrfs superblock)

I gave up and started over.  Maybe it should be clarified in the wiki that no 
mkfs should be done on additional volumes, as it's counterintuitive to some.


> yes. rc.local is too late, unless you will also mount the volume from there 
> and not using /etc/fstab

How and when then?


> 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.

This does not seem to have been sent to the listserv, as I only got it in a 
reply.  This is likely incomplete.


> Using something like "device=/dev/sdb,device=/dev/sdc" on fstab mount
> options should also work.

You mean as a substitute for a scan?

On my other server the btrfs array seems to mount just fine without any 
measures to scan.  I don't understand this,  nor why no specific advice is 
given about scanning on boot in the wiki.
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