On Thu Nov 06, 2008 at 03:13:41PM -0500, Leandro Tracchia wrote:
> ok, i want to start from scratch with these two hard drives. i quickly
> learned formatting and removing them won't work. as soon as i put them
> back in, mdadm starts rebuilding them. what do i need to do to be able
> to create a new array with these two hard drives, if they are already
> part of an apparently existing array???
>
You'll need to wipe the superblocks:
mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sda
mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdc
Then recheck the partitioning is still okay before continuing to create
the new array on the partitions.
Cheers,
Robin
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