This page has instructions on deleting a raid device. Have you tried it? http://wiki.randompage.org/index.php/DistOS:Linux:RAID#Delete_a_Virtual_Device
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 17:09:35 Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote: > Ramon... I am the culprit for that commenting out. I commented out the > md1 as well as the entry in the fstab. I fdisked the drives and > remarked the type of the partition as swap instead of raid. I then > rebooted the server in the hope that nobody tries to keep the devices > for md1 in use. I still couldn't delete the old raid device. You can > mark the drives as failed, but you can't remove them. > > I am still at a loss. Oh and btw... yes you do not mount your swap > partitions. You do swapon and swapoff. mkswap creates the appropriate > space correctly. Its just the md1 device that gets in the way it > seems. > > On 7/30/07, James Attard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you can also create a swap file with dd, if you are really in a > > precarious state. > > > > On 7/30/07, Ramon Casha < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hmm, I just noticed that the md1 device was commented out in > > > > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf, but I don't know if that file is auto-generated by > > the process of assembling the devices. > > > > > Anyway, since this is a swap partition we don't need its previous > > > > contents. Can we delete and re-create it? > > > > > On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 08:12 +0200, Anton Xuereb wrote: > > > > > > On behalf of Dino Conti (He has some problems with the Mailing list > > > right > > > > now) > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > Although the SWAP device is listed in FSTAB, it does not get mounted. > > > > > > After formatting the partition as SWAP, use the SWAPON command to > > > activate > > > > it. > > > > > Please find following output from my running server > > > > > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk -l > > > > > > > > > > > > Disk /dev/hdg: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes > > > > > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders > > > > > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > > > > > > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > > > > /dev/hdg1 * 1 2332 18731758+ 83 Linux > > > > > > /dev/hdg2 2333 2434 819315 82 Linux swap > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount > > > > > > /dev/hdg1 on / type ext3 (rw) > > > > > > none on /proc type proc (rw) > > > > > > none on /sys type sysfs (rw) > > > > > > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > > > > > > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) > > > > > > none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > > > > > > none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) > > > > > > /proc on /var/named/chroot/proc type none (rw,bind) > > > > > > sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /etc/fstab > > > > > > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details > > > > > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults > > > 1 > > > > 1 > > > > > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 > > > 0 > > > > 0 > > > > > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults > > > 0 > > > > 0 > > > > > none /proc proc defaults > > > 0 > > > > 0 > > > > > none /sys sysfs defaults > > > 0 > > > > 0 > > > > > LABEL=SWAP-hdg2 swap swap defaults > > > 0 > > > > 0 > > > > > /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto > > > > pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > > > > > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto > > > > pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > > > > > dino > > > > > > > > > On 7/29/07, Mario Xerri < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Raphael, > > > > > > Let's assess your setup from the ground up. First of all, post the > > > contents of /proc/mdstat (the md1 stanza is enough) and the output of: > > > mdadm --detail /dev/md1 > > > > > > Your raid device might not be configured correctly. > > > > > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:27:11 +0200 > > > > > > "Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes... mkswap /dev/md1 returns that the device needs to be at least > > > > 40K or bigger. > > > > > > > > That is probably because since the md1 device is still not started > > > > (its only active) then the device is still zero. > > > > > > > > starting the raid device says that md1 is still in use > > > > > > > > Tracing the output of lsof shows that nobody is using md1 yet. 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