From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Goryachev Subject: Re: persistent removed MD referrence on reboot Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:54:31 +1000 Message-ID: <5018A877.8020506@websitemanagers.com.au> References: <50173458.40505@websitemanagers.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Skip Coombe Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 01/08/12 11:43, Skip Coombe wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. > > I did "dd -if=/dev/zero -of=/dev/sdc" and modified the the partition to 83. I've not seen this command line format, and not sure it is valid. I've always used: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc Also, can you confirm that this command completed successfully. If it failed to zero to the end of the disk, then there may still be some metadata available at the end of the disk. Failing this, you would need to wait for someone else more knowledgeable than me to comment. Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers Ph: +61 2 8304 0000 adam@websitemanagers.com.au Fax: +61 2 8304 0001 www.websitemanagers.com.au