Break a mirrored drive on Linux

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:30 -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote:

> >You can use 'mdadm --fail ...', then 'mdadm --remove ...' to take it
> out of the raid 


> 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?)

Leave /dev/sda1 as it is.  It will continue to work with only one
active member.   Use fdisk to change the partition type on /dev/sdb1
to 83, then make a new filesystem on it and mount it somewhere.

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  Les Mikesell
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