On 31 December 2010 00:10, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > Â What am I forgetting to do? I had a RAID1 using sd{a,b,c}3. I > stopped md3, removed the md3 line in /etc/mdadm.conf, deleted the > partitions using fdisk, and then created 5 new partitions using > sd{a,b,c,d,e}3 to get ready to do a 5 disk RAID6. The new partitions > are the same size as the old ones and located at the same sector > addresses. > > Â After rebooting, but before creating the new RAID6, I still see md3: > > mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] > md6 : active raid1 sdb6[1] sdc6[2] sda6[0] > Â Â Â247416933 blocks super 1.1 [3/3] [UUU] > > md3 : active raid1 sdc3[2] sdb3[1] sda3[0] > Â Â Â52436096 blocks [3/3] [UUU] > > md5 : active raid1 sdc5[2] sdb5[1] sda5[0] > Â Â Â52436032 blocks [3/3] [UUU] > > unused devices: <none> > mark@c2stable ~ $ > > > Â What am I doing wrong or forgetting? I would like md3 to be totally > gone before I create a new md3 in it's place. > > Thanks, > Mark > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at Âhttp://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Erase the superblocks? Recreating partitions doesn't (usually) affect the data on the HDDs. // M -- 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