* Michael W. Lucas <[email protected]> [2012-07-13 21:46]: > I'm playing with softraid on a test machine. I reuse disks. This makes > me trip over metadata: > > # bioctl -c 1 -l sd2n,sd3n softraid0 > softraid0: volume level does not match metadata level > > # bioctl -c 5 -l sd2p,sd3p,sd4p,sd5p,sd6p softraid0 > softraid0: not all chunks are of the native metadata format > > I could just spew "dd if=/dev/zero" all over the disk, but surely > there's a better/faster/simpler way to clean up this metadata? Any > suggestions?
dd'ing over the beginning is enough & the way to go for now. 64k should suffice. -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
