On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:52:52PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:40:21PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 07:10:44PM -0600, lee wrote: > > > > On Thursday 2008 December 04 15:15, lee wrote: > > > > > How do I remove the UUIDs from /dev/sda and /dev/sdb to prevent > > > > > the automatic detection from being confused again? > > > > > > > Check out the --zero-superblock mode for mdadm. It is documented in 'man 8 > > > > mdadm'. > > > > > > cat:/home/lee# mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb > > > mdadm: Couldn't open /dev/sdb for write - not zeroing > > > > > > > > > It's the same for sda. Do I need to stop all md devices involving > > > these disks to remove the UUID? If so, how do you do it when it's not > > > possible to stop them while the system is running (other than booting > > > from CD or the like)? > > > > whilst booting add init=/bin/bash to the kernel options, or boot up > > knoppix or something like it > > Oh. Does bash run with only the root partition mounted? usually :), there is also a way to get busybox loaded from the initrd and have it drop into a command prompt > > > -- > "Don't let them, daddy. Don't let the stars run down." > http://adin.dyndns.org/adin/TheLastQ.htm > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.
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