removing legacy raid settings from a drive

[Bill Davidsen]

Gregory Machin wrote:
> Hi
> I have a drive from a software raid set that I'm trying to reformat.
> When I try and reformat it i get the following results
> 
> [root at ns ~]# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1
> mke2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
> /dev/sdc1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!
> 
> I see the drive has been marked as being raid from this.
> 
> [root at ns ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities :
> md_d0 : inactive sdc1[1](S)
>       244195904 blocks
> 
> unused devices: <none>
> 
> 
> How do I remove the raid association so I can reformat it ?
> 
See mdadm --zero-superblock

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