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Removing RAID-1 from Ubuntu machine

NotMe · 2005-08-23 09:39:08

I've set up raid wrong on the machine and I'm trying to get rid of it now. I'm using mdadm. There doesn't seem to be a command to delete an array. When the machine boots it tries to add /dev/hda5 to /dev/md0 and fails because /dev/hda5 is busy. /dev/hda5 is the linux partition. I've tried creating a new raid array on…

23-08-2005 09:39AM

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I've set up raid wrong on the machine and I'm trying to get rid of it now. I'm using mdadm. There doesn't seem to be a command to delete an array. When the machine boots it tries to add /dev/hda5 to /dev/md0 and fails because /dev/hda5 is busy. /dev/hda5 is the linux partition.
I've tried creating a new raid array on /dev/md0 with different partitions but when I reboot it keeps trying to use /dev/hda5. There must be a way to disable it.

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