Hi, this page might give you some useful information on what mdstat gives you:
https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Mdstat

Christopher Tooley
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On 2012-09-18, at 10:25 AM, Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:46:34PM -0700, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, I did miss the sda on all four partitions.  Does the
>> [2/1] mean this is the first of two drives?
>> 
> 
> 
> Please RTFM.
> 
> Somehow you expect this list to teach you how to read the output of /proc/mdstat.
> 
> Please believe me, you will learn much more and understand things much better
> by reading the MD/mdadm documentation first.
> 
> A good place to start is the R** H** system administrators guides.
> 
> 
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