On Mon, Feb 16, 2015, at 10:38 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Wiping the partition table doesn't erase filesystem superblocks, so if there > previously was an sdc1 with an ext4 partition and the new sdc1 starts at the > same offset, the old fs is still accessible. ... > wipefs. Starting with what I had most recently ... stopping the arrays mdadm --stop /dev/md0 mdadm --stop /dev/md1 zero'ing out the superblocks mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdc3 mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdd3 mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdc4 mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdd4 wiping the drive details wipefs --all --force /dev/sdc1 wipefs --all --force /dev/sdc2 wipefs --all --force /dev/sdc3 wipefs --all --force /dev/sdc4 wipefs --all --force /dev/sdc wipefs --all --force /dev/sdd1 wipefs --all --force /dev/sdd2 wipefs --all --force /dev/sdd3 wipefs --all --force /dev/sdd4 wipefs --all --force /dev/sdd creating new partition info sgdisk -z /dev/sdc sgdisk -o /dev/sdc sgdisk -n 1:2048:+1M -t 1:ef02 -c 1:"BIOS Boot" /dev/sdc sgdisk -n 2:+0M:+300M -t 2:ef00 -c 2:"EFI System" /dev/sdc sgdisk -p /dev/sdc ... Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 4095 1024.0 KiB EF02 BIOS Boot 2 4096 618495 300.0 MiB EF00 EFI System replicating to the other drive sgdisk -R=/dev/sdd /dev/sdc & randomizing its GUID sgdisk -G /dev/sdd checking now blkid /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: PARTLABEL="BIOS Boot" PARTUUID="c374b718-3f28-49e8-9d35-452844288233" blkid /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdd1: PARTLABEL="BIOS Boot" PARTUUID="547ad9ec-3e9c-44a4-ac05-e3f244280675" perfect. thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html