Break a mirrored drive on Linux
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed May 31 21:02:53 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 15:45 -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
> 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
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