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From: <me@heyjay.com>
Subject: Re: Deleting an raid device
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:27:57 -0500
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To: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
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I'm using Debian, and mdadm.

I thought mdadm didn't us the /etc/raidtab file anymore

Jay
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Campbell" <brad@wasp.net.au>
To: <me@heyjay.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: Deleting an raid device


> me@heyjay.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What are the proper steps for deleting all remnants of a previous raid
> > install?
>
> <I inserted some lame joke here using /dev/zero and dd but I re-thought it
after picturing someone
> blindly doing a cut and paste, then cursing me for zeroing their boot disk
by mistake.>
>
> > I've done:
> > mdadm --stop /dev/md0
> > mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/md0
> >
> > But I still see it getting stopped on shutdown.
>
> Have you blitzed the /etc/raidtab file? (If you had one that is)
> You may be seeing your distribution trying to shutdown the array on
shutdown rather than something
> actually being stopped.
>
> Regards,
> Brad
>
>
>