There's a web page somewhere describing how to properly break a RAID. I haven't done it but it went some like this: 1. Boot in "linux rescue" mode. 2. fdisk /dev/hda and change the partition type back to 82,83 instead of fd. 3. remove /etc/raidtab. 4. reboot. You may can reset the partition types in multiuser mode and just reboot. I have no idea what happens to the stray raid superblocks left over... and I don't know how ext3's filesystem and journal accounts for the superblocks and have to do a resize2fs. -eric wood Brett wrote: > Greetings etc, > > In a system I am building I have setup two hard disks in a RAID 1 > configuration (which has worked well so far) but I would now like to > disable (possibly temporary, possibly permanently) the secondary hard > disk from the array (so the RAID array will be an array of one). I > have tried removing the secondary hdd from /etc/raidtab (and > rebooting) but this has no effect (lsraid -R -p also does not show > the changes I made to /etc/raidtab). I have also attempted to > "raidstop" each array, but the majority of them are in use at > runtime, and thus I can't unmount them. Can anybody offer some > pointers? > > Additionally I will still need both hdd's in the machine as I will be > installing Gentoo on the secondary hdd, so simply removing the hdd is > not an option. I suppose I could simply format the drive from a boot > disk (and recreate the array when I want it back),but there has to be > a nicer solution than this? > > Thanks in advance, > Brett -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
