Re: Removing an unwanted RAID 1 array

[Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org>]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, Michael Stone wrote:

> > root@titan ~ mdadm --misc /dev/md4 --stop
> 
> This is incorrect syntax, and a no-op (so the array did not stop). You want
> `mdadm --misc --stop /dev/md4`. The --misc is implied so you can just use
> `mdadm --stop /dev/md4`

I ran the command

 root@titan ~ mdadm --misc --stop /dev/md124
 mdadm: stopped /dev/md124

md124 has now disappeared from cat /proc/mdstat.  I also updated /etc/fstab, ran 
systemctl daemon-reload, updated /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and ran update-initramfs 
-u .

Thanks, Roger