So, you created an array and you messed up something? Now you would like to delete it?
Please note: all data will be lost with this operation!
1. Stop the array
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# mdadm -S /dev/md0
2. Remove the disks from the array (in my example md0 is a raid5 array with 3 disks)
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# mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/sda
# mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/sdb
# mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/sdc
3. Destroy the array configuration from each disk (this will destroy all the data from your disks)
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# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=1024
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=1024
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1M count=1024
4. Remove the mdadm.conf file (if any)
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# rm /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
Now you can try to create a new array as you wish or as you were suposed to…
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