Break a mirrored drive on Linux

Thu Jun 1 03:16:09 UTC 2006

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 16:30:19 -0500,
  Matthew Benjamin <msbenjamin at fedex.com> wrote:
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> This worked! One more question if I reboot I guess it will find the new
> device and begin rebuilding the partition. So how do I change the
> partition type, and should I change it to the main drive /dev/sda1 or
> the second drive /dev/sdb1 (which has been removed). (fdisk?)

No it won't. That partition has been removed from the raid set so it won't
be rebuilt on reboot. You would need to use mdadm to add it back in.