Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP3 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 2-23-2010 Administration Manual page 98

umount <raid-device>
4 Stop the RAID device and its component devices by entering
mdadm --stop <raid-device>
mdadm --stop <member-devices>
For more information about using
5 Delete all data on the disk by literally overwriting the entire device with zeroes. Enter
mdadm --misc --zero-superblock <member-devices>
6 You must now reinitialize the disks for other uses, just as you would when adding a new disk to
your system.
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, please see the
mdadm mdadm(8)
man page.