Re: Break a mirrored drive on Linux

From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:02:53 -0500

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 15:45 -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote:

Breaking a mirrored drive
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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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