How do you logically remove a partition from a RAID1 array with
raidhotremove?

I umount'ed the filesystem that was running on the array and I was able to
raidhotremove the hot spare partition and raidhotadd it back, but I cannot
raidhotremove one of the main array partitions; I get told that the disk
is busy, even though the array is not mounted.

I can raidstop the array OK, but then raidhotremove tells me that the
array is not running.

What I am trying to achieve is to remove one of the main array partitions
to ensure that the array re-synchs successfully with the hot spare.

The only way that I was able to achieve what I wanted was to raidstop the
array, edit the /etc/raidtab to use the failed-disk directive and then to
mkraid with the --force option (well, the other real option, actually).

There has to be a better way - like raidhotremove that works (8-(

Pity about the missing man raidhotremove (8-(

-- 
Howard.
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