>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1024 > >should handle it I would think. > >obviously, you really want to make sure that you replace sdX with >something very accurate. Yeah, I ran that for the first few megs, but it looks like mdadm doesn't recognize the device as an md device (obviously) so a mdadm --zero-superblock doesn't work: # mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb1 mdadm: Unrecognised md component device - /dev/sdb1 I am hoping to avoid dd'ing the whole disk, its huge. From what I can tell, the superblock is near the end. Maybe a dd with a seek? jlc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list