Package: mdadm Version: 2.6.7.2-3 Severity: normal
Hello, I repeatedly run into trouble trying to nuke ill-configured drives to make them usable again (lest these bogus RAIDs show up eg. in d-i and prevent me from properly configuring the drives). I am already aware of 'mdadm --zero-superblock' and friends, but have to note that these just don't work. Eg. I was unable to use this command from a shell, spawned from d-i, to remove bogus RAID0 superblocks from the drives. I got error messages like this: ~ # mdadm --zero-superblock --force /dev/sda mdadm: Couldn't open /dev/sda for write - not zeroing Kind regards, --Toni++ -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (450, 'testing'), (250, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mdadm depends on: ii debconf 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii makedev 2.3.1-88 creates device files in /dev ii udev 0.125-7+lenny3 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo Versions of packages mdadm recommends: ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.5.5-1.1 High-performance mail transport ag mdadm suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
