I have successfully identified and decommissioned a failing RAID partition -- my RAID1 was then running properly with only one of its two twinned partitions. Every timr I booted, I got a message complaining that it was deficient. The drive with the failing partition was indeed defective, and has been physically removed from the computer. and replaced with two new ones, which have been tested by exhaustive read- write testing.
I've created partitions for the RAID on the new drivew, and successfully added them. The new drives are three times as big as the old ones. I'd like to drop the remaining old one from the RAID setup now, so I can triple the size of the RAID. Now presumably I can use mdadm to software-fail it, or to remove it, or something like that. 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? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
