wiping the superblocks! yes, that was it. thanks! On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- > ___ > ( ' } | Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | > / / ) | Little Jim says .... | > // !! | "He fallen in de water !!" | > -- 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
