also sprach Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> [2009.02.17.1747 +0100]: > But I understand these partitions are marked in some way to > identify them as RAID members, and that these marks are used at > boot time to asssemble the RAID. > > What do I have to do to make sure that after I have removed the > old member it is never again recognised as a RAID member? There's a superblock. When mdadm starts, it scans the devices listed for DEVICES in mdadm.conf (or all partitions if it says 'partitions') for superblocks. You can remove a superblock with --zero-superblock. See mdadm(8). -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems a c programmer asked whether computers have buddha's nature. as the answer, the master did "rm -rf" on the programmer's home directory. and then the c programmer became enlightened...
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