Good morning Miguel, On 09/06/2013 06:42 AM, Miguel Corberán Ruiz wrote: > Hello, > I am having a problem stopping an array. When I use the command "mdadm > --stop /dev/md0" the array disappears completely. It does not even > appear under /dev/m.. This is the expected behavior. > Then, when I try "mdadm --remove /dev/md0" bash tells me that /dev/md0 > does not exist. So, after stopping the array with "mdadm --stop ..", > "cat /proc/mdstat" says that there is no array running. From what I > read the array should be visible but in a halted/stopped/deactivated > state. And then one can proceed to remove it. The --remove action is used to remove a failed member from an array, not an array itself. > What I want to do is to completely remove the array so I can mount the > individual partitions anywhere else without the need of mdadm (and > access the data created when the array was running). You would use --zero-superblock on each member device to make it "forget" what array it belonged to. HTH, Phil -- 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
