I'm using Debian, and mdadm. I thought mdadm didn't us the /etc/raidtab file anymore Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Campbell" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <me@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:10 AM Subject: Re: Deleting an raid device > me@xxxxxxxxxx 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 > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
