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From: Alan <alan@×××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:47:15
Message-Id: 20070325174021.GP14979@ufies.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header by "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
1 On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 04:03:32AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
2 > On Sunday 25 March 2007, Alan <alan@×××××.org> wrote about '[gentoo-user]
3 > getting rid of raid header':
4 > > Somehow one of my hard drives got a raid header on it, causing it to
5 > > start automatically sometimes when not needed. It's on /dev/hda, my
6 > > main system disk, which is not RAID at all. Running mdadm
7 >
8 > Check mdadm --misc --help and mdadm --manage --help. I believe there's
9 > a --zero-superblock mode, but you'll have to check the spelling. You'll
10 > use it like mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/hda.
11
12 Perfect, except it says that it can't open it for writing. Guess I'll
13 boot off a liveCD and see if that helps. Thanks!
14
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