Re: Problem halting raid 1

[Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>]

Good morning Miguel,

On 09/06/2013 06:42 AM, Miguel Corberán Ruiz wrote:
> Hello,
> I am having a problem stopping an array. When I use the command "mdadm
> --stop /dev/md0" the array disappears completely. It does not even
> appear under /dev/m..

This is the expected behavior.

> Then, when I try "mdadm --remove /dev/md0" bash tells me that /dev/md0
> does not exist. So, after stopping the array with "mdadm --stop ..",
> "cat /proc/mdstat" says that there is no array running. From what I
> read the array should be visible but in a halted/stopped/deactivated
> state. And then one can proceed to remove it.

The --remove action is used to remove a failed member from an array, not
an array itself.

> What I want to do is to completely remove the array so I can mount the
> individual partitions anywhere else without the need of mdadm (and
> access the data created when the array was running).

You would use --zero-superblock on each member device to make it
"forget" what array it belonged to.

HTH,

Phil
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