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From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
Subject: Re: How to remove non-existant device
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:18:47 +0100
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On 23/09/2010 22:54, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:16:19 +0100
> John Robinson<john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>  wrote:
>> On 23/09/2010 08:30, Benjamin Schieder wrote:
[...]
>>> But now I can't remove the sda partitions from the RAID:
>>> kblhbe101:~ # mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/sda5
>>> mdadm: cannot find /dev/sda5: No such file or directory
>>> kblhbe101:~ # mdadm /dev/md0 -r sda5
>>> mdadm: cannot find sda5: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong here?
>>> kblhbe101:~ # mdadm --version
>>> mdadm - v2.6 - 21 December 2006
>>
>> Try `mdadm /dev/md0 -r missing`.
>
> Close.  "missing" is only meaningful with --re-add.
> You really want  "-r faileded" or "-r detached"

Bah. I knew it was something like that.

Cheers,

John.