Break a mirrored drive on Linux
Matthew Benjamin
msbenjamin at fedex.com
Wed May 31 21:30:19 UTC 2006
> Breaking a mirrored drive
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Is there a way in Linux to break a mirror, and then use the drive that
> was broken for some new partition (example: /home). FC3 and FC4. I am
> running out of space and I am finding the RAID 1 is no longer desired.
>You can use 'mdadm --fail ...', then 'mdadm --remove ...' to take it
out of the raid which will continue working fine >>with only a single
member. Be sure to change the partition type when you re-use it so the
system won't try to auto-detect and map it back in when you boot up.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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?)
mB.
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