Re: Yet another RAID admin question

also sprach Hendrik Boom <hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2009.02.17.1747 +0100]:
But I understand these partitions are marked in some way to
identify them as RAID members, and that these marks are used at
boot time to asssemble the RAID.

What do I have to do to make sure that after I have removed the
old member it is never again recognised as a RAID member?

There's a superblock. When mdadm starts, it scans the devices
listed for DEVICES in mdadm.conf (or all partitions if it says
'partitions') for superblocks.

You can remove a superblock with --zero-superblock. See mdadm(8).

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