-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 4:03 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Break a mirrored drive on Linux > 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx Ok all which you said worked out great, I rebooted and all went well. Then I said to myself (I will mount the drive and delete files on it then add it back to see how well the regeneration works. After I deleted most of the files on the disk, I did a "umount /mountpartition" (without the quotes) and the server locked up. I hard booted the server and it came back to a grub prompt. Can you tell me why and possible how to fix it? mB.
