[linux-lvm] converting PV from md to non-md

[Luca Berra]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:13:57PM -0400, Musard, Kris wrote:
>I am trying to "undo" the software raid setup on a system.  I have been
>able to simply change the partition type from "linux raid auto detect"
>to "linux" and mount the filesystems which were previously formatted on
>top of the md device directly to the underlying /dev/hda[0-9] device.
>The PV was originally added as /dev/md1 to the VG.  I tried setting the
>partition type from "linux raid autodetect" to "linux LVM" but vgscan
>and vgimport both give an error about the PV is part of a multiple
>device.  Does anyone have a procedure for going from LVM on top of linux
>md software raid to LVM without md?  Any help would be much appreciated.

mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/hdaX

L.


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