How To Remove Rogue RAID

I added two new physical drives to my Linux server and for some reason
I now see '/dev/md127' when I run 'cat /proc/mdstat':

root ~ # cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md127 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sdc2[1] sdd2[0]
243199936 blocks [2/2] [UU]
resync=PENDING

I never create /dev/md127 what so ever and I'm fairly sure it just
popped up. I can tell you the two new disks I added above (/dev/sdc &
/dev/sdd) did have 'fd' RAID partition tables on the disk so I don't
know if that is why it (/dev/md127) shows up when I run 'cat
/proc/mdstat'.

I tried to remove the drives too but they failed:

root ~ # mdadm --manage /dev/md127 --remove /dev/sdc2
mdadm: hot remove failed for /dev/sdc2: Device or resource busy
root ~ # mdadm --manage /dev/md127 --remove /dev/sdd2
mdadm: hot remove failed for /dev/sdd2: Device or resource busy


Can someone please tell me how I can stop the RAID, remove /dev/md127
so that I can create a separate mirror with /dev/sdc & /dev/sdd.
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Re: How To Remove Rogue RAID

On 02/01/2011 19:42, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> I added two new physical drives to my Linux server and for some reason
> I now see '/dev/md127' when I run 'cat /proc/mdstat':
>
> root ~ # cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [raid1]
> md127 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sdc2[1] sdd2[0]
> 243199936 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> resync=PENDING
>
> I never create /dev/md127 what so ever and I'm fairly sure it just
> popped up. I can tell you the two new disks I added above (/dev/sdc&
> /dev/sdd) did have 'fd' RAID partition tables on the disk so I don't
> know if that is why it (/dev/md127) shows up when I run 'cat
> /proc/mdstat'.
>
> I tried to remove the drives too but they failed:
>
> root ~ # mdadm --manage /dev/md127 --remove /dev/sdc2
> mdadm: hot remove failed for /dev/sdc2: Device or resource busy
> root ~ # mdadm --manage /dev/md127 --remove /dev/sdd2
> mdadm: hot remove failed for /dev/sdd2: Device or resource busy

You'd need to --fail the devices before you can --remove them. But in
this case, you don't need to do either...

> Can someone please tell me how I can stop the RAID, remove /dev/md127
> so that I can create a separate mirror with /dev/sdc& /dev/sdd.

mdadm --stop /dev/md127
mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdc2
mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdd2
(To be sure I'd do the above repeatedly until it complains there's no
superblock, because different superblocks live in different places and
--zero-superblock only scrubs one at a time, and if you want to get
these discs back to properly blank, --zero-superblock again repeatedly
on /dev/sd[cd]1 and /dev/sd[cd])
fdisk /dev/sdc and delete/adjust/create whatever partition(s) you want
ditto /dev/sdd
mdadm --create whatever

I've never used whole discs as md components, always partitions, so I'm
not sure whether there might be the possibility of the whole discs being
auto-detected as blank if there's no partition table or an empty one,
for which I can imagine a workaround of using 1.2 metadata and some kind
of dummy partition table, but somebody who's done it can advise.

Cheers,

John.

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